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The key to the Oliver Future sound is how much it reminds me of Radiohead's older material; singer Noah Lit doesn't really sound like Thom Yorke, but the way he uses his voice becomes instantly familiar upon the very first listen. The music also has a similar quality to it, particularly in how the keys are layered within the music and the way they *don't* use their guitars. That is, letting the lack of guitars from time to time speak just as loudly as any riff you could have played at that moment, a dub-like sensibility that often pops up in the later work of Radiohead.
Ultimately though, Oliver Future never really come across as a blatant rip-off of Radiohead and/or Yorke—rather, they just seem like a group who've grown up with and are heavily influenced by their music and it just naturally comes out this way when they write and record songs.
Other than the Radiohead influence, there are slight parallels to The Strokes or The Dandy Warhols, although this similarity in sound is only heard in a couple of songs. All in all, not a bad beginning for these young lads; perhaps with time they will gradually develop a more distinctive sound that is all their own. Even if they don't, the place they are in now isn't a bad place to reside either. —Jake
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