O.Children launches a series of concerts of United Islands Ceska Sporitelna 2013.

If you are one of those fans of Nick Cave, Joy Division or the Editors, you should not miss the performance of British quartet O.Children on February 11th in Prague’s Palace Akropolis. O.Children actually continues where torn Joy Division and Nick Cave‘s dark pop ended, and where they tried in vain to shift the Editors after their last good album An End Has A Start. It is no coincidence that O.Children were the first acclaimed band for the Slovak festival Pohoda, known for its great dramaturgy.

O.Children came to existence in 2008 from the relics of the band provocatively named „Bono Must Die“, which was a typical torn band with a dry guitar sound. A year later the band produced the single Dead, including the track Dead Disco Dancer, which first raised and got the attention of the club audience and of music journalists. In 2010 followed the eponym album O.Children, revealing the famous single Ruins which also outlined the band’s further musical path. From the dark post punk and dark wave, they started to shift towards their own style combining dark guitar riffs, Tobias O’Khandi‘s grave voice, and secret, but also sometimes even unexpected sounds on the verge of pop. They produced a second album, Apnea, in 2012 which reflects O.Children‘s authentic sound in all its aspects in 11 soundtracks, and maybe mostly within the last one called Chimera. This shift was first noticed by British journalists and bloggers, who already in May designated the album as one of the most valuable British album since 2012, similarly as the magazines The Fly or NME.

Kay Burianek also reviewed enthusiastically the new album Apnea on the server protišedi.cz, where he claimed among others that „each of the 11 brilliant songs bears in itself something that contributed to form our taste… And the best for the end. Chimera, track 11, is a crazy masterpiece like the best of the Editors, actually even better… You want to contract all your muscles in your body and try to wave hands like you were flying, get off the ground when the refrain comes along, because you are convinced that it would be natural. The last 35 seconds with the piano/synth motive is one of the most gorgeous sound  i’ve heard in the last 10 years. Because it’s not a mess. Because it’s killing.“

O.Children will bewitch you. Not only because somebody wrote it. They will get you simply because they are good. And even better live, this not only did their United Islands concert confirm, but so does their current European tour, during which they will perform in a concert in Prague’s Palac Akropolis on February 11th.

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