Orouni – A Greased and Golden Palm
I don’t normally post a lot of videos, but I have been on the verge of posting some Orouni material for a while. In general I find their output a little inconsistent, but there’s no debating the fact that they have some really excellent songs.
This happens to be one of them: a lovely piece of twee indie-pop, with a nice beat, a catchy chorus and nice, subtle use of female backing vocals to accentuate the chorus. The video is by Marisa Lai and, although I love claymation and this is lovely, I do find that the pace of the two pieces of work (i.e. tune and film) doesn’t quite match up at times and they can feel a little disconnected.
Nevertheless, it’s a really nice animation and a band with a lot of potential and some very good songs – MySpace here, enjoy, and while you’re there check out related project The Limes, particularly the brilliant Dead Furniture.
Wow! As you say, a little disconnected at times, but overall, a great video and a fantastic tune. Cheers for that!
I enjoyed that.
Very nice.
Yep, they have some really good stuff, but some of it didn’t quite spark for me either, so I was left in a bit of a quandary – I didn’t want to write about them only to slag them off too much.
love the song and video