< oaks - bravo! >

Just in case you forgot or you missed my posts about them the first time (three years ago...), Oaks is awesome. Their music is classified as stoner rock but with a Melvins-inspired background, so it's not quite the lazy you might expect. They play in the same genre as Red Fang with less focus on wide-appealing simplicity and more focus on simply being heavy.

You'd have to be dead inside not to at least appreciate their only album Bravo!, so if you find it, get it. All That is Heavy still sells copies of Bravo! for $6.99, so if you do compact discs, I suggest you go that route. ATiH is currently running a sale you are probably also going to be interested in...

In the meantime, here's Oaks performing two of their songs in a row - "Kix 4 Free" and "Deerhead". The familiar part of "Deerhead" starts right about 7 minutes in case you want to skip ahead. Sorry, vocals apparently didn't translate well on the video, but otherwise it's a good one.

If you do know who Oaks is, you may have also missed that they uploaded something new a while ago... "Grim Grim". It's not really a "song" per se, but if you're a fan, hey, it's worth a sample.

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April 17, 2011 / 12:57 PM
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