Phonograph's Sophomore Album, OKNO, Set for Sept. 29 Release

Phonograph, the Brooklyn based alt-country band whose self-released and self-titled debut album surprised critics and radio programmers in 2007, return with their eagerly anticipated new full length, OKNO, on Sept. 29.

Phonograph will be performing songs from the new album, as well as their self-titled debut, at The Living Room in New York City on Wednesdays at 10:00 pm throughout July.

David Dye, in his review for NPR’s World Café, wrote of the release, “Phonograph’s debut sounds surprisingly assured for a new band. Balancing synths and pedal-steel with a twangy, roots-pop sensibility, the disc impresses with both the depth or its song-writing and the impeccable musicianship that backs it up.” Uncut Magazine awarded the release four stars while Paste Magazine said the band “creates a unique, complex sonic landscape.”

Since the 2007 release the band has toured with Wilco, played Bonnaroo and The Newport Folk Festival as well as release the ballyhooed “Hiawatha Talking Machine” EP, which was recorded in reportedly haunted home of Adlai Stevenson in Normal, Ill.

Recorded at The Bunker Studio in Brooklyn New York over the first few months of 2009, OKNO includes guest performances from Grace Potter, David Amram, Jeremy Turner of the New York MET, and Charlie Hunter Trio member, Erik Deutsch.

OKNO’s track listing is as follows:

1. You/Me
2. OKNO
3. Wellwisher
4. Are You Gonna?
5. Holy Rollers
6. Cedars
7. Mountaintops
8. Less Than Expected
9. American Music
10. Paper Bag
11. Lily Eyes
12. Uke