Ours - Distorted Lullabies

Ours is like Nine Inch Nails in that it is a band in name only and in this case a guy named Jimmy Gnecco is the wizard behind the curtain. Blessed with a very good voice that is similar, I repeat similar to the vocal range and style of Jeff Buckley, but not as good as his in my opinion, which is interesting because apparently Buckley had worked with him.

Dreamworks signed Ours after a bidding war started over who could sign them and then they took 3 years to make the debut record Distorted Lullabies. A rather tortured album that is not written from the brightest point of view in the universe, but what it has is sweeping, melodic “alternative rock” songs with soaring vocals, tight arrangements and good production, much of it courtesy of Steve Lillywhite. The first part of the record is more up tempo rock that mellows in the second half with more ballads and acoustic guitars.

Here is Sometimes and my favorite song on the record I'm A Monster which has some very evocative lyrical imagery.

Buy it here.