GET SET GO
Selling Out & Going Home (TSR Records)
Reviewed by Eric Saeger

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Unfortunate timing for such a moniker, yes, infinitely so being that these guys are so much better at everything than their tuneless, corporate-alt-bot competition. OK Go may have the nu-mod dorks and TGIF Corona-burpers in their back pocket this fiscal quarter (and worldly art connoisseur Jimmy Kimmel waddling around claiming he "really likes" them), but they'd never be able to pull off a Kinks-vs-Who thing like this, let alone measure out the right amount of Dropkick Murphys to add in order to make it slam-dunkedly pub-worthy, not to mention the fact that the Get Set Go chaps look a lot more "what, no free trail mix in this dump?" than that inexplicably enthusiastic Abercrombie knock off. Not for nothing, but Get Set's got a lot catchier material, too, legitimately sticky stuff that doesn't need twenty force-feedings to get one lonely head bobbing at the pool tables. All for naught, of course, if they don't change their name on the double.

© 2007 - Eric Saeger