Okay- Huggable Dust

Okay is the moniker of Marty Anderson of sporadic math rock band, Dilute. While Dilute was filled with start and stop, taps, and distant bloops and blips; Okay is filled with light-hearted indie rock instrumentation with Marty Anderson really displaying his vocals and all around unique voice... this time... without coming off a little creepy sounding. I love the two bands equally, don't get me wrong, but there is a vastly different approach between them that I felt needed pointing out.

Okay - Huggable Dust (2008)

'Huggable Dust' is Okay's (and Anderson's) 18 song, 2008 release. It features many great little indie gems like "Only", "Natural", "Panda", and "Pretend". I don't listen to as many "indie rock" bands that I did maybe a few years back but there's something about Okay and the way Marty Anderson sings over the music. It's almost as if these songs shouldn't be as delicate as they are; like there's supposed to be chaos in it all and instead it was replaced by beautiful major music. The closest it gets to chaotic is the tracks, "Beast" or "Truce" or "Already" I guess, but even then those still feel like the right amount of noise and balance. All of 'Huggable Dust' is like that actually... really well put together and balanced. With 18 songs on it, I don't think there is ever a time when I listen to it all the way through that I really start to get bored.

Along with Okay, Marty Anderson also has been known to call himself Jacques Kopstein. He has released one album under the name and it's called 'A'. It also features "dreamy and damaged folk pop" (Aquarius Records) but a little more stripped down and experimental.

Similar acts/sounds: Dilute, Jacques Kopstein, Natural Dreamers, Sarcastic Dharma Society, François Virot, car seat headrest, Coma Cinema, Misophone, Phil Elvrum, Karl Blau, Kickball, Foot Ox and other stuff I like...

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Dilute - Grape Blueprints Pour Spinach Olive Grape

Dilute - Grape Blueprints Pour Spinach Olive Grape (2002)

Minimal/maximum math rock featuring the one and only Marty Anderson. 

This is Grape Blueprints Pour Spinach Olive Spinach from 2002ish. It makes my skin crawl. 

The tracks "Apple" and "Alphabet" were also played on Dilute's live split with Hella. 

Along with Anderson's side project, Okay and his secret identity as Jacques Kopstein, the man behind Dilute's jagged guitar work and high-pitched dialect also has a song named after him by the newly-signed-to Topshelf math-rock-power-hour, Duck. Little Brother, Duck! Youtube it! 

I don't actually know if it is on Youtube, but this is...

The drummer for Dilute, Jay Pellicci is/was also in the bands, 31knots and Natural Dreamers.

Similar acts/sounds: Okay, 31knots, Natural Dreamers, 3nd, Hella, Kickball, Medications, Cinemechanica, Sleeping People, Pretend, Duck. Little Brother, Duck!, Planets, Howard Hello, Crime in Choir, Jacques Kopstein, and whatever else. 

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