OH NO! SUMMER ONO!

Part of me wants to wait to wait for Summer to making the more obvious puns about the season and the band, and the "oh no!", but it’s a tough one, because you needn’t wait for the sunshine to listen to Summer Ono. Much more than a fine tuned garage band, Summer Ono springs a certainly perfect wave of chilloutedness (that’s a properly fictitious mouthful) across the room for your daydreaming pleasure. The subdued pop of their self-titled album fuses the simplicity of whispery vocals with mellowing riffs, rounding out an album of upbeat tunes that could pass for  forgotten B-sides of Badly Drawn Boy. Summer Ono, OH YES! (I had to!). Get the track "Meant To Be" for free, here! – Mike Harper