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Thank you kindly.
and here come the critics:
WHEELCHAIR RIOT: "Machine Go Boom's Thank You Captain Obvious is the grown up version of a bunch of kids on a pile of rubble throwing rocks at bags in trees."
TINY MIX TAPES: "If, like me, you've grown a bit disenchanted with fashion-dance-rock, with its
requisite new-wave haircuts, and have been embracing records from the indie
pop-rock stable (Ted Leo, A.C. Newman and the New
Pornographers, and Of Montreal) simply because they feel like breaths of fresh
air, perk up your ears. Machine Go Boom's energy and unpretentiousness, not to
mention Mikey's knack for writing a catchy a pop hook and willingness to shriek
out 'la-la-la' whenever necessary, are plenty charming. Naysay if you must about
the titular instrument of 'The Kazoo Star' but the song built around it is,
like the rest of the album, so fucking likable that one can hardly argue with
the results. MGB throw everything they've got into Thank You Captain Obvious,
and props are the least one can offer."
ZAPRUDER POINT: "Once you're chuckling, deep in the task of puzzling out MGB's sonics and asides, the emotion of the songs will ambush you utterly. Sneaky bastard, that Mikey. 'Li'l Devil' boils our President down to a pair of hot, angry-red nubs; 'The Punchline Song' out-wearies Mark Eitzel by throwing in a wink, and 'Ms. Hepburn's House' is startlingly beautiful, even as its helium vocal trembles. This is a crazy-sounding album from a goofy-sounding band -- but in the end it isn't fooling around at all."
PUNK PLANET: "Exciting and enjoyable and worth a listen or ten."
SPACE CITY ROCK: "A remarkably innocent, unfiltered, joyously free chunk of pop genius, infused with a sense of childish glee and plenty of reckless abandon (see the full-on rock blowout of 'Madeline isn't Coming Home'). That's a pretty incredible thing to find in our sad era of pre-fabricated, too-thought-out, made-to-sell rock bands."
POPMATTERS: "At times, Mikey is creating terrific Ween-like rock, as on 'Captain Obvious,' and other times he's mixing that style up with some Devendra Banhart-ish moments as on the opening track, 'Lil Devil.' So basically what you have here is something completely original and fresh and worth picking up. Other tracks, like the oddly sincere 'What My Buddy Said' almost border on '70s acoustic So-Cal pop, while 'Hot Potato' and 'The Kazoo Star' take off in the freaky directions you might expect them to with those titles. But it's all very modern and quirky in the end, making Thank You, Captain Obvious one of those albums that reminds you of how great indie-pop can often be."
me: "BOOOOOOOOOOMMMM" mikey: "it sounds like boooo... it sounds like you are boo-ing us" carrie: "yeah, or like your saying boobs" mikey "yeah, maybe we will change our name to machine go boing"
overjoyed for the columbus show. july 25th can't come soon enough. contemplating building a time machine to travel to the future and cut out the waiting. it could work
OK, be straight with me here guys.. what are the chances of you ever coming to the UK?
Slim? None?
I've watched your live videos and they just look like a fantastic time, like all the best gigs I've ever been to. Come on, I want to sing along to "Captain Obvious" before I die.
Do it, dammit. You can all stay at mine or something. Anything.
I have such vague robitussin fueled memories of you from last month. I hope that you actually exist and have not been sent to drill through my memory with poison pick axes. Graciously yours, Ryan.
