Lovely Exit Wounds preview on Oh So Fresh Music
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Best Albums of 2009 Eartaste
With The XX, Conor Oberst, Black Lips, Willie Nelson et al.

Best Albums of 2009 Folly of Youth
Honorable Mention with AC Newman, James Yorkston, Animal Collective, Cymbals Eat Guitars et al.

50 best albums of 2009 Lucid Culture

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50 best live shows in NYC 2009 Lucid Culture
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Like candy-coated stones thrown at the black heart of Uncle Sam, sardonic protest songs such as Fevered Cyclone, The War Is Over and the magical, Beatles-esque title-track swathe its sincere sentiments in thrumming power-pop chords, sublime female backing vocals and joyful bursts of brass and shimmering strings. More...
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If anything will jolt this band out of obscurity, it won't be stories of sniper-wounds or comparisons to Nick Drake. It'll be Harmony Handgrenade... the one statement that matters. More...
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The considerable buzz around Harmony Handgrenade would suggest that not only has Megna found his place in the world, but the world is now finding him. More...
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Fulfills the promise of Rock and Roll, yet sounds like nothing that came before... One of the most important releases of 2009 More...
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It's still quite early on in Paul Megna's career, but even this early, it seems clear that he will soon take his place among the most influential of this generation's musicians. More...
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"The album is sexy and immediate, yet at times wistful. In many ways, it could prove timeless."
Danny Wadeson more from The 405
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Megna accompanies his lyrics with a soundtrack that suggests Jeff Tweedy and Van Dyke Parks collaborating on an album of co-writes with the likes of Leonard Cohen (Love Yr Way), Greg Dulli (The War is Over), Eef Barzelay (Fevered Cyclone), John Cale (Finger Trigger) and Tom Waits (Smile). With a weary voice as dusty as the attic in a condemned house, a unique guitar style and an organically intuitive sense of songcraft, Paul Megna and the Oxygen Ponies have appointed their acidic indictment of contemporary America with sounds that captivate and howl, putting them in a class with some of music's most creative purveyors.
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