Album Review
Release Date – 12th Feb 2010
Owl City’s Adam Young started out writing music in his parents' basement, turning to music as a result of his insomnia, and after listening to his latest album, “Ocean Eyes”, I can imagine he never had trouble with sleeping again, being subjected to the 12 tracks of tedious and monotonous pop that is “Ocean Eyes” certainly sent me to sleep.
Covering childlike topics such as going to the dentist, and pondering over fireflies is a blatant attempt to draw in a younger crowd, to secure his place in the mainstream, with the belief that The Jonas Brothers and Miley Cyrus fans could finally make him famous after two, previously unsuccessful albums.
However, these weak and emotionless topics are not the most annoying thing about this album.
It is in fact his breathy vocals and limp laptop synthesizer that is the most displeasing.
Sounding like a thinner, cuter version of “The Postal Service” or like an obvious rip-off of electro-popsters “Hellogoodbye” is not a good sound for any one.
If I was Adam Young, I would head back to the drawing board and try to create something original.
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