>indie rock
Hungry Ghosts is the fourth album of rock group OK Go, who are known for having sub par, generic indie rock music that is buffered by having the best music film clips in the industry.
On this album, they’re even more bland than before. While their previous albums are as generic as they come, save for a handful of decent songs (accompanied by phenomenal music clips), Hungry Ghosts manages to take them even more boring by introducing a bunch of electronic influences, turning this album almost in to synthpop.
Their songwriting is laughable, on one of the ‘oh look we’re deep’ tracks titled Obsession, he sings: “Your blood starts to pump / ’cause you’re worried you might jump / And your head throbbing like a heart / And your heart throbbing like a drum / And the drums throbbing like the point is just go ahead and jump.” Woah man. See how the lyrics blend so seamlessly and easily in to the next line? Did Joanna Newsom pen this one?
Everything is just fucking boring. ‘I Won’t Let You Down’ is slightly okay, a pretty cool funky track that is their lead single from the album (so obviously it has a clip). The clip isn’t as good as plenty of their others, so even that is lacking, the mechanics of it are no doubt amazing, but even then the effect gets kinda old kinda quick.
This album is fucking boring, the only impressive thing is that OK Go have managed to create an even more standardised version of radio friendly generic rock music than Coldplay, and made an album even more boring than that standard. You’ll forget this as soon as you finished it.
MR MARCGORIUMS wonder emporIuM 