Owl City's frontman to take flight

09/29/09 - Owl City, the one-man band, is hitting airwaves hard, as singer Adam Young has released two CDs in just as many months.

On July 14, the single "Fireflies" was released on iTunes as the free featured song for the week, and now, three months later, it is catching playtime all over the radio. Young has booked playtime all over the world. His tour is set to have several shows overseas beginning in November.

It appears Young's Owl City music is pretty popular as 15 of the next 23 shows are listed as sold out on Owl City's MySpace page.

"Fireflies," featured on the full length CD Ocean Eyes is just one of 12 songs worth giving a listen to, as the whole CD is full of pleasant tunes and lyrics. Young's voice, which resembles that of Death Cab for Cutie's front man, Benjamin Gibbard, comes off cheerful as he offers an upbeat and fun assortment of songs and lyrics ranging from metaphors of water to metaphors of caves and metaphors of caves in water!

"Fireflies," offers an electronic sound, and invites a sense of nostalgia as he sings of fireflies teaching him how to dance, "a fox trot above his head." From this, one can remember his or her own times as a child trying to catch the "10 million" fireflies above their heads. Young then connects it to the idea of staying up late at night and counting sheep-another reference to childhood.

The CD only gets better with the songs "The Saltwater Room," "Dental Care" and

"Vanilla Twilight."

"The Saltwater Room" is a love song, with the backing vocals of a female singer. As Young sings of all his favorite moments with said woman, the woman sings, "So tell me darling, do you wish we'd fall in love?" and Young sings back "All the time," the female adds "Time together is never enough." The backing vocals, lyrics, and Young's own vocals are the perfect ensemble to put together the picture of two people with a strong attraction.

"Dental Care" brings comedy to the album as it begins with an upbeat rhythm and continues with Young describing a visit to the dentist and then leads into why he has to see the dentist-his words cause toothaches when he says all the wrong things. This is all described within a series of descriptions of actually visiting the dentist and all experiences we can relate to, "With a smirk he says, don't have a fit, this will just pinch a bit, as he tries not to grin." Source ramcigar.com