This is not a Music Recommendation

You need to rush out and buy the album "Children of the Stars" by The Orion Experience.



I know my post title says this isn't a music recommendation, and albums contain music, so it seems like I'm being a big fat liar, but stick with me.

The Orion Experience is a plucky New York City band obsessed with making exuberant, hook-filled pop music. They're brilliant, and they must know it, because everybody around them must be telling them they're brilliant all the time. Yet so far as I can tell, nobody's ever heard of them and they've been languishing in obscurity for years.

But when you listen to "Children of the Stars," you find that they don't seem to care. Because even greater than their obsession with blending the sounds of Blondie and the Beatles and ELO and Lady Gaga and a hundred other influences is their palpable belief in proclaiming the beauty of the universe while trying to make our human world a better place.

The album is so packed with optimism, enthusiasm, and encouragement that many cynical 21st Centurians will reflexively dismiss it as cornball fluff. But in spite of the wall of power-pop/glam-rock sound and the over-the-top cosmic lyrical frames, these people are genuinely on a mission to change the world, and the album is dead-set on getting you to pick yourself up and do your part.

Buy it, listen to it, believe in it. Then get busy building the reality you used to wish existed, before adulthood slowly ground it out of you.

Also, the music is really, really good. Sorry, I couldn't help saying so.