“Wow…really love these guys sound! It’s exactly what this country needs at the moment: a true voice and a true talent.”
- Chris O’Dowd, The IT Crowd
I found out about Oswald by happenstance. I was snooping around the deep, dark corners of the internet, looking for sites to exchange mutually beneficial links with, and found IndieBands.ws (who, incidentally, wrote the very comprehensive History of Indie Music). The folks over IndieBands.ws are huge Oswald fans, and implored me to check them out.
Needless to say, I’m hooked.
At first listen, they definitely remind me of U2, but without the annoying overpolish of that Top 40 band from the Emerald Isle. It’s definitely not a sound that has penetrated the states yet; I can think of only one other indie rock band that has even a similar sound (that uses it well, that is).
Like Chris O’Dowd said, I think the American listener could really uses a band like this. Accessible, but still anthemic. Deep lyrical content, but not complicated for the sake of complication. Arrangements that could be taken down to a three-piece setup live, but still remain huge and epic to retain the emotion of the song.
If you’re looking for something fresh, you’d be an idiot to not check out Oswald. They “make a noise anyone can get behind and find some element to lose themselves in.”
Wow, these oswald guys really suck. This is the first and last time I visit this site after a recommendation like that. SOunds like every piece of lame shit song on the radio. Next.
Hey, you came and posted a negative and insulting comment and put in bogus contact information. YOU ARE AWESOME BECAUSE NO ONE HAS EVER DONE THAT BEFORE!
You don’t like the music?
Cool. Everyone’s entitled to their opinion, and even to voice that opinion publicly.
However, doing it anonymously is WEAK.
I don’t see the sense in writing such hate-comments.
From the other side of view – such primitive and negative comment shows the raising popularity of your web-site.