Blog: Direct Current

Ocho offers up, in a fittingly numeric way, eight songs of inspired, rough hewn Americana and intelligent alt-country with just enough indie rock seeping though to keep things sharp around the edges. Collin Herring , a Fort Worth native now based in Austin, sometimes sounds like you might imagine early R.E.M. might sound if they'd been knocking around bars and clubs in Texas instead of Georgia: the guitars grind with an earnest kick on songs like "Young Ones" but at the dusty core there remains a more mystical, sun-baked pace with the occasional steel guitar (from Herring's dad [...]

• Collin Herring - "Little Aches" » Collin Herring - Little Aches 128.mp3
• Collin Herring - "Young Ones" » Collin Herring - Young Ones 128.mp3