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Ho-humSouthern Arkansas' Bryan brothers (Lenny and Rod) formed Ho-Hum while attending Ouachita (pronounced WA-SHI-TAH) Baptist University in the early nineties on basketball and football scholarships. Their pop-rock instincts were immediately apparent--a homemade demo landed the band a major label deal with Universal in a matter of months. Their debut album Local soon followed--though it displayed Lenny's quickly burgeoning songwriting talents, the slickly slack production seems in retrospect a foreshadowing of the rise of limpid rock bands (Hootie and the Blowfish, Counting Crows, Matchbox 20) in the mid-nineties. The band's unwillingness to remain in the middle of the sonic road led to their severing ties with Universal, and to the flowering of what must certainly be one of the best unknown rock bands working today. Sanduleak is a pop-punk masterpiece, Massacre is a shaggy tour de force, Landau Zeal is a taut, anthemic mind-blower, Funny Business sounds like Laurie Anderson sharing a joint with Can, Near and Dear is perhaps their finest moment, and Now I Love You finds them exploring "world beats" to effects that Paul Simon et al couldn't match. Already the creators of a staggeringly powerful body of work, the Bryan brothers show no signs of slowing down. Their performances in Little Rock, Arkansas are attended in a spirit approaching religiosity.
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