Owl City: Ocean Eyes | CD review

Anyone with a low sugar tolerance should beware Owl City, aka Adam Young, the Minnesotan MySpace phenomenon currently topping the singles charts with "Fireflies". Following in that track's footsteps, Ocean Eyes deals in emotive electro-pop primed to soundtrack US teen dramas, its earnestly romantic reveries soaring over oh-so-pretty arrangements of twinkles, clicks and bleeps. Young is a capable tunesmith, but any semblance of personality is submerged beneath the record's airbrushed sheen, while...

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