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...When I was 15, I met [current OK Go guitarist] Andy. He was a total jackass when I met him. I had a yo-yo, one of those crazy mechanized yo-yos that keeps spinning. He was like ‘Dude, let me see your yo-yo.’ So he starts swinging my yo-yo around his head and half of it goes flying off into the abyss somewhere. He was like, ‘Oh man, I’m really sorry. How much did that cost?’ And I was like...
...Things don’t always work [at home],” Maasdorp said. “It’s definitely a Third World country. We have power cuts for hours and people are lighting candles and saying, ‘OK, we’ll play cards.’ Harvard life stops when the Internet stops...
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...garage-rock movement continues to slather its greasy mixture of hipster apathy and commercial aspiration all over mainstream radio and magazine covers, another movement is bubbling just below a neon Spandex surface. It has finally arrived, with refreshing intelligence and flair, in the form of OK Go. The Chicago-based group’s eponymous disc meshes its tweaked guitars with rebel yells, resulting in one of the year’s best debuts...
Perhaps the album’s most striking feature is Kulash’s ability to make songwriting appear effortless. He breezes through the album’s 12 tracks, perfectly complementing its carefree charms with lyrical craftsmanship. One gets the sense that OK Go could sit down and record a dozen more albums without a moment’s hesitation or writer’s block. OK Go is a true delight to listen to, making a good case that the recent ’80s revival can induce good art as powerfully as it can general nostalgia...