★★★★★
Sound: Well I was lucky enough to get an advance preview of this album and it's good. A definate progression from their first album after the depature of their second guitarist. The sound is more mellow but they can still kick it out when needs be (Do What You Want, Invincible). Damien has an amzing gift for being able to sing in a high pitch voice without anoying people (saying that I'm a big fan of Co&Ca;). // 10 Lyrics and Singing: The lyrics are just as impressive as on the last album...
- www.ultimate-guitar.com
2012-04-12
★★★★★
Providing a tune for Morgan Spurlock's POM Wonderful: The Greatest Movie Ever Sold seems like a perfect bit of synergy for the viral load of Prince and power-pop known as OK Go. The Chicago band has always been commercial but cheeky, whip-smart but up for some dumb fun...
- www.avclub.com
2011-06-27
★★★★★
Take some smart guys a la Weezer, mix in a little bit of The Cars, add in some organic elements of J. Geils Band, stir in a dash of Cheap Trick flavor and let it all cook with tunes that are fun to hear, and you've got the dish on up-and-coming rockers OK GO. On their self-titled debut, these four guys out of Chicago seek to make music that is fun without being overly silly, intelligent without being too self-important. Will this new music set the world on its ear...
- www.popmatters.com
2011-01-20
★★★★★
Growing up, I never paid much attention to producers and their roles in the recording process. It has only been the past ten years or so that I have come to realize how a producer can affect the sound of a band, or more appropriately, why a band finding itself going in a certain direction would select a specific producer...
- theywillrockyou.com
2011-01-18
★★★★★
Unless you've been hibernating in Outer Mongolia for the past two weeks, you can't have failed to hear Ok Go's 'Get Over It'. With it's dumb, gonzoid rock intro stolen wholesale from Queens 'We Will Rock You' and insidiously catchy chorus, it's a radio friendly unit shifter of the highest order and the opening track of this impressive, albeit flawed, debut album...
- www.gigwise.com
2010-11-09
★★★★★
So, you got the email. Treadmill ballet = instant viral penetration. Grammy award, Simpsons parody, legions of advertising 'creatives' ripping off the idea ? the works. An audience of 49 million and counting has watched OK Go's video for 'Here It Goes Again', and that's not including the cooing legions of monitor-huddling co-workers ? bringing the tally to a more realistic estimate of around 50 to 60 big ones...
- thequietus.com
2010-11-09
★★★★★
With the funky Stones pastiche single A Million Ways not making my top three album tracks speaks volumes. Oh No is at times frantic, and always upbeat and foot stomping. The thirteen songs rock and bop with a cheeky devilment and the image of their almost legendary group-dance routine on the single is hard to shift. If you're not familiar check it out www.okgo...
- www.music-news.com
2010-11-02
★★★★★
I love when albums start like this one does, with WTF? Fuzzy, buzzy, sexy and jarring (5/4 time), it makes quite the impression. This Too Shall Pass, which follows, is less striking but still solid. Next track All Is Not Lost is warm, reassuring, compelling. Further down, Skyscrapers is shouty and desperate, and White Knuckles is a fun, unpretentious dance party. I could go on, but I won't. Against the odds, this is alt-rock plus glam plus shoegaze plus pop jambalaya that flat-out works...
- www.hour.ca
2010-11-02
★★★★★
Sometimes, OK Go feel more like a prank than a band. Famous for treadmill-dancing in the video for "Here It Goes Again," they play guitars that shoot laser beams and once passed out burritos on the street. Even their new album, Of the Blue Colour of the Sky, sounds like pop's version of a fake mustache: Frontman Damian Kulash gives his best Prince impression, from the gasping falsetto of "WTF?" to the assless-pants funk of "White Knuckles," but it's more Midnite Vultures than Purple Rain...
- ew.com
2010-08-27
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