Spill Me Out On To The Floor

The Oohlas “Small Parts” – If you can imagine The Breeders, Veruca Salt, Lush, Dressy Bessy, and Throwing Muses as gigantic, brightly colored mechanical lions, the Oohlas would be like the Voltron that they would form when…um, assembled by little boys with generous parents in the mid-80s. I’m sorry, but this is just a horrible simile. Anyway, the band’s first record, and this song in particular, sounds like the revenge of a 90s alt-rock subgenre that is well-loved by many, given serious critical thought by very few, and cruely, has no name. If The Killers’ shtick was to revitalize glammy early 80s synthpop by beefing it up and writing choruses that demanded full-stadium singalongs, The Oohlas do the same for the likes of Belly, Letters to Cleo, and That Dog. Most of those bands never had a problem writing hooks or rocking out, but if only some of them had dropped a chorus as huge and heart-breaking as the one in “Small Parts” when they most needed a good follow-up hit back in the day. (Click here for the official Oohlas site.)