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In the tradition of The Ramones, The White Stripes, and maybe even …*cough*…The Donnas, here’s another band who adopts part of their band moniker as their own names. “Oh, Atoms” is made up of Gwen Atom and Marc Atom, who are both multi-instrumentalists and vocalists, it seems, with long pasts in the music biz.

With their debut album, “You Can’t See The Stars From Here”, Oh, Atoms, put a solid stake in the “happy” folk-pop sound. Gwen Atom and Marc Atom are really Gwen Cheeseman and Marc Withecomb (going by “Atom” appears to be a good call, by the way), who with their cool-breeze brand of cheerful sweets declare that angst-rock is your dad’s music. Move on, angry man, smell some flowers, eat a cookie, and pet a puppy. Life is good, so enjoy it – basically the musical message of Oh, Atoms.

Their first single. “Sugar Mouse” is free below and sounds like a good candidate for some indie soundtrack – which it is, actually. It was included in the movie “Angus Thongs and Perfect Snogging” a film by Gurinder (Bend It Like Beckham) Chadha. Haven’t seen the movie, personally, but I’m liking the soundtrack already.

Admittedly, this song is a bit over a year old – so posting this is going against the “brand new music showcased on this site” theme, but in the spirit of Gwen and Marc, I’m going to relax, not worry about it, and just enjoy the music. After all, life is good, right?

DOWNLOADS:
Track: Sugar Mouse

OFFICIAL SITE:
www.myspace.com/ohatoms

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