Portland, Maine indie rockers Little Oso release their debut album ‘How Lucky to Be Somebody’ via US label Repeating Cloud and UK label Safe Suburban Home on 17 January 2025. According to vocalist and guitarist Jeannette Berman, the album ‘chronicles all of the multiple truths of what if feels like to exist, and how at the end of the day, at least we get to be here to experience something together’.
‘Good Things’ opens the record in dreamy, shoegazey fashion, combining Mew-style guitar work with military drums and the atmospheric nature of the Twin Peaks theme tune. ‘Blues and Yellows’ continues with stop-start indie-pop hooks and a dollop of nostalgia: ‘It was the fall of last year’. There are delicious pop melodies on recent single ‘Metaphorical Ohio’, while ‘The Frogs Sing for No Reason’ lives up to the lovely sentiment of the title with luscious melodies and lyrics celebrating being weird and wonderful.
‘Other People’s Lives’ is packed with breezy guitar melodies and words full of intrigue – ‘There’s a notice in the door to evacuate’ – while ‘Spiral’ does what it says in the tin. Hypnotic and swirling sound soon collapse and falter as Jeanette tells you ‘You won’t remember’…
While Little Oso talk about how lucky it is to be somebody, it’s our luck that they’ve come up with a record this sublime.
