Cargo Records

If Thief Remix Album

Ollo’s 2nd album “The If If” became one of Australia’s underground hits in 2007. Australian and overseas artists queued up to remix songs of the album.

From San Francisco’s house kings 40 Thieves to Sydney’s electro hero Dsico. Whether mixing electro with great vocal pop melodies, or acoustic strums, stuttering hip hop beats and emotional static with dub, Sydney's ollo have been compared with The Flaming Lips, The Triffids, Caribou, Prefuse 73 and Herbert. On their second vocal heavy album they prove how they managed to gatecrash BBC Radio 1's Festive 50 top 10 in 2006 and why Linda Evangelista once chose to sashay down the catwalk to their music. OLLO REVIEWS : “You know an album is going to be different when its opening line is “I really should eat more bananas and get more exercise”. The second album from Sydney’s Ollo, The If If, doesn’t disappoint; it’s a strange and imaginative collection of anti-pop songs that uses simple, melodic electronica to create trance-like soundscapesThe result is an eerie and well crafted musical excursion where you never quite know where you’re heading, or where you’ve just been.” Rolling Stone. “It's rare that a duo blends the heavily layered jamming of Can with the downtempo groove of Massive Attack, but Ollo succeeds with flying colors. Kraut jams, incorporating spastic live drums, wah-pedaled guitars, and funk bass from space. If it's not the trippy guitar solos on "Summer Salt" that weave you into their interplanetary web, it'll be the always-shifting synth pads that reel you in and take you under”. XLR8R (USA).