OK Go Set To Release New Album

09/23/09 2:46pm

by Siobhan Ozege (CHARTattack)

When they aren't contributing to tween soundtracks, turning YouTube into a household name or hanging out with Barack Obama, OK Go have been keeping themselves busy producing their new album Of The Blue Colour Of The Sky, slated for release Jan. 12, 2010.

As a follow-up to their acclaimed Oh No, which gave us Grammy-winning video and Rock Band favourite "Here It Goes Again," the 13-track album inspired by Prince & The Revolution's Purple Rain is taking the band in a new direction.

"We've just expanded the guitar rock ideas from our teens and we're starting to get at more root level influences," says vocalist Damian Kulash.

The band have been working with ex-Mercury Rev member David Fridmann (The Flaming Lips, MGMT). Damian and the rest of the band look forward to reaction to Of The Blue Colour Of The Sky come January.

"I think it sounds more like us than anything else we've done," he says. "It's more like the music that's in the back of my head, just out of reach, that I've been trying to get to for so long. And it embodies contradiction in a way I feel connected to. It's the saddest and the most hopeful music we've made, and both the danciest and most thoughtful."