Oh No Oh My

The DIY ethic's nothing new, as any caveman will tell you, but in the indie universe it still matters, especially for bands relying on throngs of internet hype and scenesters' word of mouth. Like Clap Your Hands Say Yeah, Nashville-based Oh No! Oh My!'s debut is self-released and registers across the indie spectrum and beyond, drawing comparison

s from the Shins to Simon and Garfunkel. However, Nashville ain't no Brooklyn, and certainly no one's spotting David Byrne or David Bowie at their gigs. Throw in the band's Google-phobic moniker, and you've got yourself a hype machine running solely on a MySpace page and scattered blog fumes.

Songwriting duo Greg Barkley and Daniel Hoxmeler pull off the half-serious, half-goofball indie shtick just about as well as you'd expect from two proud home-schoolers. Obviously the guys have girl troubles, though they're just as likely to deal with them earnestly ("Goodbye to my sweetheart/ You fill my day up like a spark") as they are in tongue-in-cheek, Violent Femmes fashion ("Jane Is Fat", "Women Are Born in Love"). This pull-no-punches, anything goes strategy creates a more relaxed, effortless feel than so many starchy indie up-and-comers vexed by the desire to immaculately emulate their favorite influences. Using twee as a jumping off point, the band utilizes an orchestra's worth of instruments that takes their sound through alt-country, electro-pop, and back (http://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/9070-oh-no-oh-my/).

Oh No! Oh My! - 2006

01."Skip the Foreplay" - (3:49)
02."Walk in the Park" - (2:22)
03."I Have No Sister" - (3:03)
04."Reeks and Seeks" - (1:51)
05."Lisa, Make Love! (It's Okay!)" - (3:18)
06."On the Town" - (2:19)
07."I Love You All the Time" - (2:18)
08."Jane Is Fat" - (3:47)
09."Farewell to All My Friends" - (3:50)
10."The Backseat" - (4:36)
11."Women Are Born in Love" - (2:32)

Good Music!

People Problems - 2011

1. Walking into Me
2. You Were Right
3. Again Again
4. No Time For Talk
5. I Don't Know
6. So I Took You
7. Brains
8. Not The One
9. There Will Be Bones
10. Should Not Have Come To This
11. Circles and Carousels
12. Summerdays

Good Music!