Location:
Canada, Ontario

Category:
Pop

Try if you like:
Andrew Bird, Black Cabbage, Modest Mouse, Pavement

•   Inside The Cinema

The Toronto project of one Michael O'Connell known as Culture Reject is very new to me. It won't take long before this wonderful project becomes well known in the college music market. Michael likes to play a myriad of instruments, all in the warmth of his bedroom, to the point it feels like this tower of lush sound is going to collapse. Culture Reject just feels like the perfect name for this album as well. The music contained would never be accepted by the masses even though it is very accessible. 

The musicianship cannot be denied either. I love the Latin flavored "Overflow", which has a huge Andrew Bird feel to it. Some of the times Michael likes to sing in a haunting falsetto like on "Oh Remain". Download "Inside The Cinema" over there on the side bar and check out the push "single" from the album. It sounds a little like Isaac Brock in Modest Mouse. 

Apparently Culture Reject impresses in a live setting as well, able to pull all the loops, samples and instruments together in person.