Odawas
The Blue Depths

Writer E.L. Doctorow writes that, “There is no longer any such thing as fiction or nonfiction; there’s only narrative.” I’m inclined to believe the st...

Of the few bands that conjure up sweeping vistas and evoke a sense of limitless depth in their music, there are fewer that do so with minimal personne...

If M83’s much-heralded (but not by TMT!) Saturdays = Youth was supposed to be a wide-eyed and youthful soundtrack to late-night adventures and adolesc...

In my review of Raven and the White Night (2007) I made a reference to the aptitude of Odawasâ?? own description of themselves, something about ...

Odawas have trimmed down to a duo on The Blue Depths, their third album, and in so doing they have also stripped back their sound to reveal a lush and...

If you're to believe the band's blog, the Odawas duo of Michael Tapscott and Isaac Edwards has no patience for Led Zeppelin. Already, I'm at odds with...

Originally formed in Indiana and then shuffled across the Midwest to the Bay Area, Odawas have often seemed as much an ambitious studio project as a f...

The Blue Depths is the third Odawas album released on the Jagjaguwar label, but it is still hard to believe that all this sound and space is made by a...

Having never heard of Odawas before, I did a brief Google rummage which turned up this useful blog on their site, entitled “10 Records to listen to in...

With a solid outing of music that has always been respected but never unquestionably, recognized, Odawas’ duo, Michael Tapscott and Isaac Edwards, hav...