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Friday, March 6, 2009

Tonight / Album / Love Say Hi - Oohs & Aahs

Posted by on Fri, Mar 6, 2009 at 5:05 PM

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I'm crazy busy today—I'll spare you the details—but I wanted to make time to draw your attention to this week's music lead about Say Hi and the band's new album, Oohs & Aahs. In short:

-Oohs & Aahs is Say Hi's best album to date.

-Oohs & Aahs is also the first Say Hi album that's made any impression on me at all.

-Upon surveying Say Hi's back catalog in researching this article, however, I've discovered that Impeccable Blahs isn't nearly as bad as Pitchfork says it is (5.3—ouch); in fact, it's a pretty good little indie pop rock record.

-Say Hi's Eric Elbogen used to write pseudonymously as a music critic; here's what he has to say about that nasty business:

"I sort of stopped [writing about music] when music started paying the bills," Elbogen says. "Which was also kind of around the time that some of the negative reviews started to roll in. It was partly a financial thing and partly—the first couple times that someone just trashed me and the records, I decided that was something I didn't want to do to another band."

Whatever, weirdo. Read and comment on the whole thing here.

Say Hi perform tonight at Neumos, 8pm, $12, all-ages, with Mt. St. Helen's Vietnam Band and Visqueen

 

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