Ooh La La…Listen on Spotify
Moon Over the Freeway…Listen on Spotify
Get Up ‘N’ Go…Listen on Spotify
Ditty Bops is a super weird or ironic name for a death metal band. You can take comfort in knowing that this here The Ditty Bops is not a metal band. Your instincts for band names and music genre is as accurate as it always has been. What this band offers is tight vocal harmony and highly competent technical skill…at least to my untrained mind. The music is soothing, yet interesting as it tells a story that’s easy to follow. Their music is not all happy, but it is beautiful and entertaining.
Ooh La La begins and ends with crickets. Oddly enough, I think The Ditty Bops use cricket sounds in more of their songs than any other band I know of. Impressive! The song builds tension as vocals overlay an increasingly complex instrument arrangement. Again…I think that’s what’s going on. There’s a synchronization of deeper guitar tones and bass at times that I find ominous and delightful.
Moon Over the Freeway is a wonderful song to listen to on the freeway at night as it captures the sounds and sentiment of open road travel…at night…so well. Bebopping along into whatever lies ahead. It was always a welcome addition to my commute when it would pop up in my random playlist.
You could rot sitting forever waiting for the coast to clear…or you could Get up and go. It’s a jaunty and inpatient song that would be frantic, if it weren’t so well arranged. The tension is well felt. It’s the kind of song that you can’t wait to end so that you can play it again.
The only way you’re going to know if you like these songs is if you listen to them. I don’t want to say too much that would color your opinion of the music…You do you. If you do listen and like what you hear, please consider obtaining more of their stuff from a fair and reputable source. I’d offer you a bootleg CD out of my trunk, but I’m fresh out. Damn…I really could have used the eight dollars.
I don’t make the music, but I believe it is important to support those that do as best we can. They don’t have a website that I can point you to, so I’d start with Google and this…The Ditty Bops – Wikipedia.