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Office
A band named Office sounds like it should be perfectly aligned pop with sterile, pristine structures or supremely boring, blank guitar rock designed for an afterlife as hold music. After all, even the word "office" causes visions of the corporate rat race, filled with seas of identical gray cubicles, each containing one person attempting to do as little work as possible without getting caught, and visions of endless briefs, paperwork, and memos, with copy machines monotonously grinding, and rows of chattering bobble-heads on headset phones.
But the band Office? Office's music is cool, confident, and cosmopolitan, filled with exuberant hooks, playful multi-part vocals intermingling, and sexy electro keyboards. Office's sound is more than a little reminiscent of The Cars and Talking Heads, particularly in singer Masson's vocals. His nonchalant speak-sing sounds often like David Byrne as Masson rattles off objects and images of everyday life. The insanely catchy "Q&A" bubbles and bounces, as a bass guitar chugs along with the infectious melody and jangly guitars swim above. The song undulates, swinging between soothing instrumental moments and thrilling walls of sound.
Unsurprisingly, frontman Scott Masson has first hand experience with the drag of having a day job. He works by day as an office manager, while also finding time to record and self-release albums in his copious amounts of free time. While we may never get away from the white-collar world but, lucky for us, you can easily make Office's Q&A your own clandestine sonic background to the banalities of business life.
(The following songs are from the Q&A demo CD which is no longer available for purchase; however, the band's first real album, The Ritz, will be out on Scratchie Records in 2007.)
Office - Q&A
Office - Big Bang Jump!
Posted by Queen of the Front Row at 02.28.07 at 5:36 PM
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