Blog: The Blue Walrus

O Children ( facebook / twitter ) are named after a Nick Cave song, this London four-piece conjure up a range of influences and styles. Fortunately, they pay homage, and expand on the sounds that inspire them here. More obvious comparisons would draw Joy Division and Echo And The Bunnymen, and they get that a lot. 2010’s self-titled debut proved to have real character once people looked past the simple and lazy journalistic tags of "bleak" and "dark". Apnea stories the personal struggle and legal battles of gentle giant (and frontman) Tobi O’Kandi. [...]