Of the Blue Colour of the Sky by OK Go

Of the Blue Colour of the Sky, OK Go's third album, arrived in January 2010 through Capitol in America and EMI across the Atlantic, and it's the sound of a power-pop band deciding to get weird. Dave Fridmann produced it over seven months at his Tarbox Road Studios in Cassadaga, New York, and the title, the words and the whole concept come from a pseudoscientific book from 1876 about the influence of blue light.

Damian Kulash, Tim Nordwind, Dan Konopka and Andy Ross trade the crunchy hooks of old for fuzzed-out funk and psychedelic haze. "This Too Shall Pass" and "White Knuckles" carried it onto the countdowns. When the band split from EMI and Capitol, their own Paracadute label took over, reissuing it that April and running the rest of the campaign. It debuted at number 40 on the Billboard 200, their best showing in the States.

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