Mandatory ESP, by O'er The Ramparts

Mandatory ESP

by O'er The Ramparts

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1.	Nostalgia 02:45	buy track
2.	What Are The Odds? 03:52	buy track
3.	New Orleans 02:33	buy track
4.	Comeback Train 02:16	buy track
5.	God City 06:27	buy track
6.	That's Why My Breath Always Smells Like Gasoline 03:26	buy track
7.	All This Time (Get Back) 02:55	buy track
8.	And You'll Know It's Love (Hello Scientist) 05:42	buy track
9.	Fat Man Gas Balloon (Version IV) 04:50	buy track
10.	Black And White Television 03:24	buy track
11.	Excelsior 02:24	buy track
12.	Footrace 04:00	buy track
13.	Walk On 05:34	buy track
14.	No Feeling 02:59	buy track
15.	Slow Motion Emotion Detection Machine 04:33	buy track
16.	Suit 05:31	buy track

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O'ER THE RAMPARTS
BY JASON HELLER
THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 17, 2005
You can just picture it: Four children of the '70s kicking it in the basement, inadvertently huffing poorly capped bottles of paint thinner and plowing through wobbly renditions of all their classic-rock favorites. Then punk comes along and, instead of giving them tunnel vision, actually opens their eyes.
After five years as Denver's ambassador of old-school indie rock, O'er the Ramparts has fizzled out. But thankfully, the group has bequeathed one last injection of innocence and honesty to a world sorely in need of it: Mandatory ESP is a sixteen-track chunk of clunky pop with a cock-rock core, recalling Kiss and the Who as smothered by Superchunk and Love as Laughter. Not even electron microscopes could detect an iota of pretension or posturing in these songs, where guitar solos soar like spitballs, and riffs and harmonies breathe deep instead of hyperventilating. Denver's once-humble indie scene is well on its way to becoming too hip for its britches; all the would-be Modest Mice in town would do well to subject themselves to a little Mandatory listening.

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released December 1, 2004

Aaron Betcher
Dan McDermott
Tim Nakari
Chad Peterson

WITH:
Chad Wells (Bass on 2,3,6,9,11,12,15)
Den Hideous (Keyboard on 3,6,15/Vocals on 3,6,7,15/Tamborine, Maracas on 3,6)
Jason Jones (Percussionist on 5,8,13,16)
Colleen McDermott (Harmony sining on 7)

Recored and Mixed by Dan McDermott
with Matt Van Leuven
Mastered by Jeff Merkel
Special Thanks to 8 Houses Down Recording

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