Video Premiere: Owl City & Carly Re Jepsen - Good Time

Song: Owl City (feat. Carly Rae Jepsen) - Good Time

Cover: Owl City (feat. Carly Rae Jepsen) - Good Time

Release Date: June 26

Cover: Owl City - The Midsummer Station

On May 24, 2012, Young revealed on Twitter that his fourth studio album would be titled The Midsummer Station.


Release Date: August 14

Song: Owl City - Shooting Star

Video Premiere: Owl City - Deer In The Headlights

Dim: Owl City - All Things Bright And Beautiful

There’s a reason Owl City has sold more albums than the Postal Service, the short-lived band that more or less wrote the template for Owl City’s bubbly electro-pop. Give Up, the Postal Service’s 2003 debut, sounded like the soundtrack to an indie film, with subtle samples and knotty, literate lyrics to match. Owl City’s music is a big-budget reboot of that record -- the indie flick remade into a summer blockbuster -- and it caters to a far more marketable audience, bypassing the college kids who purchased Give Up and focusing on teenagers whose imaginations have yet to be sullied by adulthood. The 12 songs on All Things Bright and Beautiful, Owl City’s third album, certainly demand the audience’s imagination -- or at least their willingness to go along with the world Adam Young dreams up, a cartoonish place where the skies look like alligators, the rivers taste like fruit, and emeralds poke their heads out of every rock. “I stood under the waterfall kiwi-pineapple parasol as Cinderella dropped the crystal ball and made the concrete cavern a caterpillar concert hall,” Young sings during “The Yacht Club,” phrasing his words with the geek-chic articulation of Ben Gibbard while guest artist Lights, another synth pop revivalist, sings along in the background. To his credit, Young is a top-notch producer; his music pops and fizzes with glitchy electronics, which he splashes throughout the track list like effervescent paint, and the songs all have an otherworldly sound about them, as though they were born in space and sent back to Earth in futuristic clothing. But there’s no bite to Young’s sugary confections, no break from the electro-pop treacle that he churns out like an emo Willy Wonka. He falls back on the same patterns too often (virtually every song involves some mention of seas, skies, dreams, comets, rockets, rivers, fruit, emeralds, and other precious metals) and all the electronics start to whirl together after the second track, which is the only song to boast a pop hook as memorable as the production. Like the syrupy candy it is, All Things Bright and Beautiful is best enjoyed in small doses; anything more than that may turn the stomach.

Based on Critics - 24/50

Based on Public - 12/50

Based on Hype - 8/50

Based on Pop Flares - 30/50

Overall:

Album: Owl City - All Things Bright And Beautiful

All Things Bright and Beautiful is the third studio album by Owl City
to be release June 14.

Produce by: Adam Young

Track Listing:

1. “The Real World”
2. “Deer in the Headlights”
3. “Angels”
4. “Dreams Don’t Turn to Dust”
5. “Honey and the Bee” (feat. Breanne Düren)
6. “Kamikaze”
7. “January 28, 1986″
8. “Galaxies”
9. “Hospital Flowers”
10. “Alligator Sky” (feat. Shawn Chrystopher)
11. “The Yacht Club” (feat. LIGHTS)
12. “Plant Life”

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Video Premiere: Owl City (feat. Shawn Chrystopher) - San Francisco

Song: Owl City - Alligator Sky

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News: Owl City - All Things Bright And Beautiful

All Things Bright and Beautiful is the third studio album by electropop act Owl City with a worldwide release date of May 17, 2011. The album have been confirmed to have a collaboration with LIGHTS and not-yet-confirmed with B.o.B.

Confirmed Tracks:

"Plant Life" (Featuring Matt Thiessen)

"Deer in the Headlights"

"The Honey and the Bee" (Featuring Breanne Düren)

"Astronauts"

"Dreams Don't Turn to Dust"

"The Yacht Club" (Featuring Lights)

"Wear My Heart On My Sleeve"

"To The Sky"

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