Oh No Oh My Mimic Spiritualized and Radiohead on 'People Problems'

Posted on Jan 27th 2011 5:00PM by Mike Ayers
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When listening to 'People Problems,' the sophomore set from Austin, Texas indie rock quartet Oh No Oh My, the first thing that comes to mind isn't going to be a heavy influence from British psysh-drone-rock band Spiritualized. Yet multi-instrumentalist Tim Regan tells Spinner that indeed, Jason Pierce's influence rears its head in subtle ways that, if anything, demonstrate the guys in Oh No Oh My certainly care about their end result.

"The influence of Spiritualized comes with a lot of the layering of sounds," Regan explains. "We listen to his records, and they're so meticulously mixed. When we went into mix, we said we want the Spiritualized/Radiohead low end."

If that's not exactly clear, Regan offers more an explanation: "A lot of records don't have that, where the bass is very present and big. That's how we've been writing stuff, just having things like dissonant chords that make a presence of the sound. That's something that doesn't really come across when you listen to the record, but I think it's rather unique."

'People Problems' is one of 2011's first prominent indie-pop releases, one that's full of heartache. But it's also a curious record, in that the tracking reveals a handful of songs that fall under the two-minute mark, where listeners could be left with the thought that the song got accidently cut off. "We're not a jam band by any means," Regan says. "Songs like ['So I Took You' and 'Not the One'], they needed to stop there and that's how we thought they'd be more powerful."

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