O My Heart

by Mother Mother

Overview

In some cases, artsy groups that delight in being self-indulgent and eccentric aren't terribly worried about accessibility. Their attitude is that if you appreciate and comprehend what they're doing, great -- and if not, so be it. But Mother Mother's second album, O My Heart, is one of those CDs that achieves a healthy, attractive balance of accessibility and artsy experimentation. It isn't as though alternative pop/rock/folk-rock offerings such as "Wrecking Ball," "Arms Tonight," and "Wisdom" are apologetic about being quirky and skewed; in fact, this part-male, part-female group from Canada sound like they are having a great deal of fun providing off-center lyrics. But while O My Heart certainly doesn't go out of its way to be accessible lyrically, it is quite accessible musically. O My Heart has something that other "artsy-as-hell-and-proud-of-it" discs lack: hooks. There are hooks galore on this 2008 release. So even if listeners have a hard time absorbing a song's lyrics and figuring out what the song is trying to get across, Mother Mother's abundance of honest-to-God hooks make O My Heart easy to digest on a musical and melodic level. Musically, O My Heart is often infectious, and that musical infectiousness pulls the listener in regardless of how abstract the lyrics can be. Mother Mother showed a lot of promise on their appealing, if imperfect, debut album, Touch Up; they still have some growing and developing to do, but all things considered, O My Heart is a creative success for the Canadian unit. ~ Alex Henderson

Product Details

Release Date:	07/27/2018
Label:	Last Gang Records
UPC:	0060270082113
Rank:	13492

Tracks

1. O My Heart
2. Burning Pile
3. Body of Years
4. Try to Change
5. Wisdom
6. Body
7. Ghosting
8. Hay Loft
9. Wrecking Ball
10. Arms Tonite
11. Miles
12. Sleep Awake

Album Credits

Performance Credits

Mother Mother   Primary Artist
Peggy Lee   Cello
Tyson Naylor   Organ,Piano
Jeremy Page   Vocals,Clarinet,Sax (Tenor),Clarinet (Bass)
JL Carter   Trumpet
Rebecca Whitling   Violin,Violin
Shawn Penner   Vocals,Synthesizer
JP Carter   Trumpet
Ryan Guldemond   Banjo,Ukulele,Synthesizer
Howard Redekopp   Vocals

Technical Credits

Ryan Guldemond   Audio Production,Composer,Producer,Group Member
Howard Redekopp   Engineer,Producer,Audio Engineer,Mixing
Steve Hall   Mastering
Howard Redkoppp   Audio Production
Jeremy Page   Group Member
Shawn Penner   Engineer
Molly Guldemond   Design,Artwork,Group Member