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Thanks to MFKWCRG, Pop Apocalypse and YouAintNoPicasso, here are three new tracks from an artist that you absolutely have to add to your music library.
Little is known about Marty Anderson, who operates under the name Okay. He has a new full length coming out called Huggable Dust (artwork below), and based on these three posted songs from the album, it's a must buy.
Okay clearly makes great music. It's a twisted form of pop; there's lush instrumentation and countermelodies that bubble with passion under Anderson's quavering voice against shifting rhythms. This creates a fragile lo-fi uniqueness that seems to delicately discover beauty. Indeed, the songs appear complex because of their layered texture, but the musical phrases are, for the most part, based around simple chord structures. This gives Okay's sound an interesting dichotomy, which in the end, is compelling. Similarily, his lyrics seem sad and meaningful - it's an inspired sense of longing that I come away with. Perhaps that can be attributed to Anderson's battle with Crohn's Disease, which keeps him pretty much confined to his room.
"Only" is the exception. It's short and, well, sweet, with a fingerpicked acoustic guitar, handclaps and Anderson's voice as the only instruments. Yet somehow, the fragile sense of longing is still implied, despite his arguably ironic try at comfort ("i want you to know it's alright"), probably because his croaky voice seems like it will give out any second.
Stunning, yet catchy.
This is Okay's third album, Huggable Dust, out sometime this year on Absolutely Kosher.
Some Okay/Anderson artwork:
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