Wednesday, June 17, 2015

KOA

I literally, out loud, just said "Oh God, not another one," when the most popular track on Spotify started.  Yet more electro music - although not entirely bad, more of the Disclosure vein than the Deadmou5 type.  HOWEVER, additional research has shown me that there are a bunch of unoriginal people using this same moniker, and that aforementioned song is likely not the droids we are looking for.  I present you, discerning listener, with the following options:
1.  KOA the house person/producer/beatmaker/whatever.  Pleasant, if generic, beatmaker tune to get your groove on with.  With 69k spins, by far the most popular "KOA" on Spotify.
2.  KOA the world music-y gypsy tunes from some place other than 'Merica.  None of these tunes have more than 1,000 listens, so this one might not have yet hit the big time.  I can't even pronounce their song titles, with such luminary hits as "Podzimni," or "Divka Bleda," or the one everyone knows, "Toc Se S Vetrem, Rozarko."  Love that one.
3.  KOA the Christian "rocker" who actually doesn't sound like the worst thing I've ever heard.  A little Jackopierce and Third Day thing going on here.

4.  KOA the band with absolutely no presence on Spotify.  According to the ACL website, we are looking for a "soulful beach-rock sound," which doesn't click with any of the three sounds above. On to YouTube!  The ACL folks say that the band has one EP, called Cool it Down.  Here, with all of 2,373 views on YouTube, is that track by noted beach-rockers KOA:
You know what?  I'm not going to try to fade that song.  Pretty nice chill music for all of the Jack Johnson-ites out there to enjoy in between Curious George soundtrack sessions. I mean, I'm almost certainly not going to go see them play, but that is a pretty chill tune.

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