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Indie, experimental, ambient ... no single label accurately describes the musical alchemy created by the Oktober People. Their live shows ebb and swell with miraculous unpredictabilityone minute youre swooning in melodic bliss, the next youre blindsided by sheets of razor-sharp guitar and bombastic rhythmic acidity. The Oktober People may well be the best-kept secret on the local music scene.
Weekly Alibi
Guitarists Nate Santa Maria and Sean McCullough share a magical intuition that manifests in brilliant, shimmering harmony and counterpoint figures. Rhian Baston and Chris Moffatt make cunning use of dynamic swells and shifts that underscore the already roiling passion and intensity inherent in the songwriting. Absolute fucking genius!
Weekly Alibi
Listening to The Oktober People play a live set is like someone whispering in your ear, lulling you in with the promise of a great secret and then shocking you with a roar of melody.
Matt Gomez, Daily Lobo
Now let's be honest - usually when someone hands you a free CD, the odds of it actually impressing are pretty slim.......I was pleasantly surprised to find myself very impressed with what I was hearing......If you couldn't tell, I'm quite taken with their work.
chromewaves.net
SXSW Show Review:
I had the pleasure of listening to a band from Albuquerque, NM called The Oktober People. Wow, these guys are good. Solid, dreamy landscape of well-effected guitars; lyrics that sway between dreams, dark interpersonal rifts, regrets for dead loved ones, and anger with current politics.
phaysis.com
SXSW Show Review:
where a well-oiled Albuquerque outfit called the Oktober People is cranking out melodic rock tunes with a political bent and a big sound created through mastery of guitar pedals.
Chris Vognar, Dallas Morning News
SXSW Show Review:
It's too bad that more of that crowd couldn't have been over at The Hideout for New Mexican export The Oktober People. The band's big, complex sound -- with its huge sheets of cascading, billowing guitar -- deserves some of what Kaiser Chiefs are getting. Maybe they should move to England.
Cary Darling, Dallas Star-Telegram
....I hope The Oktober People can hold on longer than Bedhead did, and I hope we dont need some other band to record their unrealized ideas. A first step might be for this album to land on the desk of an A&R person at a record label, so get the word out.
David Smith, Delusions of Adequacy
The Oktober People is making my head swim to the point of delirium. Because of the band and this record, I no longer want to categorize music like this as local or national. It's just fine music. Why outside elements in the music industry aren't spending more time in Albuquerque I will never know.
Kevin Hopper, Albuquerque Journal
The Oktober People are among those few whose music offers a reason to live another day. The bands penchant for jarring dynamic shifts coupled with their collective ability to shave the edges off with deeply emotional melody and intensely complex song structures is matched only by their passion, whether on stage or on record.
Michael Henningson, Weekly Alibi
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