Oranger - Radiowave

July 27th, 2005 by EJ

Oranger is about to release a record that is definitely getting heavy rotation at my house these days, an impressive feat when you consider the assload of music being thrown at me constantly. What happens when your band plays musical chairs and you decide to shack up in the studio for a hard and fast two weeks to bang out your new songs on tape before you’re sick of them? The defiantly raw, harmonically poppy and blissfully psychedelic result comes to life on the newest Oranger album, New Comes And Goes. Calling it a mere work of overachievement by five talented musicians doesn’t do the album enough justice. It’s an incredibly relevant, well-played piece of modern psychedelic rock littered with the friendly fire of the west coast sound of the mid-1990’s. The band has toured with numerous luminaries such as Elliott Smith, Pavement, and Apples In Stereo, developing a fanbase along the way that has remained constant even when band membership has not. New Comes And Goes is fun from beginning to end, filled with crazy effects, crunching guitars, and droning keyboards to fuzz out your brain cells that much faster. I can’t recommend this record to you enough. I can’t really even review it except to say: this record is just fucking good and you need to own it.