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Pax Futura

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I'll try to sum this up as a real music critic would, "Oliver Future is the rare band that complexity and scale befit." Pax Futura's best cuts are its most dense and textured offerings(Signing Off, The Second, Drowning Parade, The Reclamation, The Slow Fast). Dystopian and bittersweet, alienated and optimistic, the album's got a helluvalotta what's good and true. This is damn good music.

As more of a cynic than a critic, I believe most rock music emerges from one of two primary sources:

1. The musician's self-serving desire to:
a) wear tight clothes and get chicks otherwise out of his league
b) express largely worthless sentiments

2. A market demand for largely worthless sentiments set to an acceptable soundtrack.

Whether by accident or design, Oliver Future is making music that can't be explained by either condition. Their music is truly valuable in this sense. It exists outside of the mundane realm of getting laid, being an "artist" or getting paid. That's probably why these guys succeed where most fail; the more Oliver Future blows out its sound the better it gets.

Pax Futura is a well-constructed shambles. You never know what you'll hear next. It's old. It's new. It's melodic. It's noisy. It's indie. Outstanding tracks include 'Stranger Than the Stranger', 'The Slow Fast' and 'Happiness Machine'. You can't go wrong.

[DW]

One of the best Indie bands to make music that reflects many generations and genre's. I stumbled across this at the used record store and bought it for a few bucks. Well worth more, than money. This is one of my favorite finds for the year. Well focused and well produced, taking Indie to a place that is funny in a serious way. I can hear David Byrne, School of Language, Magic Arm and Boy Eats Drum Machine. I wouldn't be surprised if this was a British band because it is very original. I only give 5 stars to things I consider a masterpiece, this is close, really 4.5 stars. Just pure fun. Reminds me of tripping around San Francisco and some sunshine pops down from above.

O Futura, what will you do with your 42 years of indie-dom before they change the National Anthem to "Signing Off" and Spike Lee himself refers to Hurricane Katrina as "The event that inspired Oliver Future's epic 'Drowning Parade.'"

Pax Futura is one of my Fav cd's of the year.
Oliver Future have super catchy tunes and have made a record that flows seamlessly like Sgt. Pepper and is sonically satisfying like ok computer or any flaming lips record.
The band has some bouncy grooves like talking heads but also have a motown thing going on songs like "Stranger Than The Stranger"
Oliver Future is my Favorite new band and I think they will be yours too.