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Onara

Out of Print

Aaron Thompson

Thu, Jul 17, 2008 (midnight)

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A sort of treatise on the state of industrial rock, Onara’s Out of Print might be one of the most manic CDs ever recorded. Bad alt-rock songs like “Luv N’ Caress” and “Alyssa Virus” magically fade into less--bad songs like “Never Ask What You Don’t Want to Know,” but then grow into very bad songs like “Ringmaster,” “Sunset” and “Ugly Truth,” all while sharing little musical synchronicity. Still, the cover model is moderately hot, and one can sort of imagine “Fanatic Addict” playing as a lap-dance anthem at a local strip club someday.

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Thank you for reviewing our CD. We appreciate the opportunity to receive press in Las Vegas Weekly and we fully understand that not everyone is going to "get us." We take being called "manic" as a complement and your referring to the CD as perhaps one of the most manic CDs ever recorded is a far better summary of our album than we ever could have hoped for. We tend to despise CDs where every song sounds exactly the same. Synchronicity, being defined by Webster as happening, existing, or arising at precisely the same time or recurring or operating at exactly the same periods, we take to mean repetitive and monotonous, musically, with every song at the same tempo and beat. So we think that "not" being that is totally positive. Also, your description of the songs as "bad" is also totally subjective without further explanation. Very bad ass, you obviously meant. So thank you again for a great review which we will be quoting for some time to come!

Ron Ferraro, onara

Posted by: RonFerraro on 7/17/08 at 11:07 a.m. (Suggest removal)

Quote all you want, young Christian soldiers. All in all, I think that despite the fact that I hated your cd, you guys probably have something going, just get a real drummer or something and then we'll talk.

Posted by: Aaron Thompson on 7/23/08 at 11:25 p.m. (Suggest removal)

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