People Problems

VINYL FORMAT. Comes with a digital download! Oh No Oh My writes songs that are big old bitches of a hound dog tune that beat down your senses and fill up your boots with a feeling like you've just gotta, at the very least, move. This is just a little taste of what these four Texas gentlemen can cook up - the sort of thing that you can't say no to because every other part of you is just standing there looking out over the crowd with a shit-eating grin that says, "Well hell yes!" Oh No Oh My jokingly describes their music as "sexy indie." That's what you might expect from an Austin-based foursome who cite Serge Gainsbourg's Histoire De Melody Nelson, Spiritualized's Ladies and Gentlemen We Are Floating in Space and Nico's Chelsea Girls as influences on their second full length album, People Problems. Multi instrumentalists Daniel Hoxmeier, Joel Calvin, Greg Barkley and Tim Regan showcase twelve melodically driven tunes that range from winsome plaints to slightly off-kilter rockers, including seven tracks with hauntingly beautiful strings. Oh No Oh My collaborated with sound engineers Jeff Byrd (Spoon, John Vanderslice) and Brad Bell (Spoon, Meat Puppets) in recording People Problems, the follow-up to 2008's Dmitrji Dmitrji EP. The album was recorded in the studio of Spoon drummer Jim Eno and at Hoxmeier's Sugarcube studio (named after the Yo La Tengo song). With People Problems we're not just talking about a collection of songs put onto a disc, we're talking about twelve grandly small stories of the regular and the ordinary, the unusual and the exceptional, that take turns sneaking in as tunes only to turn around and reveal that they're actually reminders of what it's like to be a person. A person with problems.