Low Road

Okay is the work of Fremont, California's Marty Anderson, a unique and incredible talent whose approach to composition is akin to a kaleidoscope run through a distortion pedal. After two albums fronting the band Dilute, two collaborating with Kenseth Thibideau (Pinback, Rumah Sakhit) as Howard Hello and a collection of older solo material under the name Jacques Kopstein, Marty the Okay persona, bent upon shaping his more experimental inclinations into pop songs.

What Marty originally suspected would be barely enough material to call the release an album became two separate album, both recorded at home (where Marty is virtually confined due to a debilitating form of Crohn's Disease, a stomach disorder). Duality as structure then became theme. Low Road and High Road are concept records, subtle ones, about personal relationships as well as about the state of this country in a world more frightening and chaotic than ever before. Employing the simple and repetitive lyricism of the pop form, Okay expresses the shockingly unexplored perspectives if the citizen as citizen, not partisan, in a country at war.