"Indie-pop is often best at its most eclectic. Saturday We're Even goes from excellent video game score to offbeat Broadway soundtrack, to loose country groove, to campfire song, to sludge, to loose, jovial pop-rock. The unifying element in this hodge-podge of stylistic pastiche and homage is a gleeful willingness to be a little strange, a little geeky and a lot smart."
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Reviewer:InsomniaRadio - - September 26, 2006 Subject: Pro Audio: Champions of Day Jobber Indie Rock "If you like indie rock made by people with day jobs, you've come to the right place."
This is the first thing you see when stumbling across Pro Audio's quickly strewn together webpage. It's a simple statement, but then I started thinking about it... Many bands put on a beautiful face in terms of web presence and image, but the music doesn't quite follow the same direction...
With Pro Audio, it's the exact opposite. One look at their webpage, and you may expect them to suck. Perhaps these are musicians just throwing out sub-par music on their days off, hoping someone will listen? But getting that notion in your head would be a mistake.
Take "She Likes Girls" for example. The instrumentation is somewhere between a loose Beck groove, the Presidents of the United States of America, and a schoolyard chant. Banjos come plucking out of nowhere, and a 60's psychadelic synthesizer plays with musical phrases that remind you of a bully yelling "neener-neener-neener."
And something about the vocals just gets lodged in your cranium.
Perhaps it's the fact that Pro Audio is under no pressure to accomplish anything, that allows them to accomplish so much...
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