Tonight's music sampler comes to us from indie rock artists Le Rug and Ollie Byrd. Le Rug has been compared to Nintendo, Joy Division, and My Bloody Valentine. Byrd has been compared to Built to Spill, Beck, and The Flaming Lips.
Le Rug
One half early Built to Spill (especially The Loveless Fuzz) and one half Nintendo (particularly Telebones), Bleenex is everything you could ask for and more than you’d expect in an album created by a guy who can’t even legally drink a beer at his own shows. -Spacelab
Ollie Byrd
In fact, most of Byrd’s songs have a certain sense of underlying, if not overt, merriment. My favorite, Prozac, blends a thumping dance beat, staccato guitar rhythm, and indecipherable harmonized vocals creating a drunken square dance that erupts at the end into an orgy of screaming and slapping. If this is what Prozac makes you feel like, I’m going to start taking it recreationally. I suggest you do the same. -Spacelab
