OK Go
Of the Blue Colour of the Sky - CAPITOL
FILTER Grade: 84%

Maybe the members dress funny and its collective hair’s a mess, but OK Go and its athletic singer/guitarist Damian Kulash should be ready for the big time and a few noticeable changes with having made scads of radio-ready pop-rock hits since the band’s inception. Swinging rhythms continue to thwack, and Kulash still sounds unnerved and sweaty throughout the harried rockist likes of “I Want You So Bad.” That’s par for the OK Go course. The shift, then, is in how their swing moves to a gently grinding brand of Prince-like funk and gets itself raspberry-coated in producer David Fridmann’s sticky layering process. It’s not as obviously oblivious as what Fridmann’s achieved with Flaming Lips and MGMT, but OK’s new found raunchiness is still dreamy, and Kulash manages genuine soul-boy vocal points through the angular groove of “WTF?” and the sweetly-swaying bump of “White Knuckles.”