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Monday, July 13, 2015

Chasing After You Video

Hey guys,

after weeks of teasing, it's finally here! Jacob teased us all day with a nice countdown and Erik-Michael got woken up... Oops.. Sorry... Not sorry EM! Here it is now for you all to see!

Saturday, December 13, 2014

Hidden Message!

iamerikestrada

"Hidden inside one of our CDs is a special Skype message from me. You land this baby?? Tag me in a pic with your Skype name and I'll be giving you a call!‪ #‎skypEME‬ "

Check out your booklets! Good luck!

Tons of new Pictures

We have uploaded tons of new pictures.

All new pictures can you find here in our Facebook Album

- O-Town - Erik - Dan - Jacob - Trevor -

Sunday, September 21, 2014

Skydive live acoustic

monaloring

"Skydive live acoustic by @otownofficial #skydive #otown"

Lines And Circles lyrics are finally here!

Its done!

We have finally! every single lyric of #LinesAndCircles for you!

Enjoy yourself and get your voices warm up a little bit for upcoming Shows!

Just click on the picture to get to the lyrics!

Wednesday, August 27, 2014

O-Town:
"When we decided to reunite, we made the conscious decision to do so as independent artists. In exchange for complete creative control, we had to make some strategic compromises; more specifically a limited release of physical copies of Lines & Circles.

Although some physical copies are available as imports, in the short term our fans will have to download our album digitally.

This was not a decision we took lightly but felt that it was the best way to strategically use our resources.

NOW THIS IS WHERE YOU COME IN. Radio play and an overwhelming unified fan voice will be the only way to change this. So we've created the "Chasin After You" Fan Challenge.

WE NEED YOU!! EVERY STATE. EVERY CITY. EVERY TOWN. EVERY COUNTRY. REACH OUT TO YOUR LOCAL RADIO STATIONS.

Tweet, Post, Share, #ChasinAfterYouChallenge and we'll award special exclusive gifts and discounted entry into our OFFICIAL OTOWN FAN CLUB to those that go above and beyond.

Let's prove to everyone what we've always known...

WE HAVE THE BEST FANS ON THE PLANET!

Thanks and Love,
OTown

#OTOWN2014 #LINESANDCIRCLES #CHASINAFTERYOUCHALLENGE"

Tuesday, August 26, 2014

GetOutMag: Interview with O-Town

Created via the MTV/ABC television reality show “Making The Band,” O-Town, the adorable and extremely talented boy band, enjoyed success and fame back in 2000. Signed to Clive Davis’ label, J Records, the band was best known for its mega hit songs “All or Nothing” and “Liquid Dreams.” The group – composed of Trevor Penick, Dan Miller, Jacob Underwood, Erik-Michael Estrada and Ashley Parker Angel – suffered a disastrous breakup due to a complex contract, their manager Lou Pearlman’s alleged financial “Ponzi” scandal and the effects of 9/11. Their careers were cut tragically short.

Ten years later, O-Town rose from the ashes like the mythical Phoenix and has reunited (minus Ashley) with a vengeance – and an incredibly powerful new single called “Skydive.” Their new album called “Lines and Circles” will be released on August 24. O-Town has reemerged strong and powerful, with a New York appearance happening on November 4 at Irving Plaza. I was fortunate to have had an enlightening and amusing conversation with Trevor, Erik-MICHAEL and Jacob.

“Skydive,” your new hit single, is an unusually powerful and emotional song. You can feel the drama as you’re listening to it. The concept of the song is unique. What is the actual meaning of it?Erik-Michael: Yeah, “Skydive” is about a leap of faith, and we said that from the beginning. Attempting to do O-Town again, 10 years later, took a commitment and a leap of faith from us four, because there was no guarantee that anything was going to work. So we took that leap, and “Skydive” just seemed to be the right song, what we were going through career wise and with what we were attempting to do. It creates a metaphor for our fans, and for those who really didn’t follow us at all, they could feel safe, taking the leap with us too, cause it’s worth taking a risk together. Essentially that’s what the song really talks about.

For the record, has any one of you jumped out of a plane?
Jacob: Ah, Trevor has. I wanna do it, I’m just a wuss!

Has this song gone EDM yet?
Erik-Michael: We wanna maybe do a “Skydive” with an O-Town-like promotion with the fans, but we’re still in the beginning stages of trying to figure that out.

So are you guys on tour?
Jacob: Well, actually, like on and off.

Do you have any intentions of passing through New York?
Jacob: Oh yeah, definitely!
Trevor: We’re not on like a big 40-city tour, just because like Dan in our band is married and he has children. So we made a vow to each other that we wouldn’t do like the whole 50 days in a row on the road away from our families. We’re doing it in little spurts: two, three weeks at a time. In the beginning of November we’re gonna be all through the northeast. We’re doing New York, Philly, Boston. We’re gonna be out there for two weeks at Irving Plaza and a lot of really awesome venues.

Have you guys stayed in touch with one another through the years?
Erik-Michael: Yes, yes! We have stayed in touch over the years. We remained friends. We did have an ugly breakup. We really remained as tight as we could. Right after the band, we scattered and moved everywhere: Jacob moved to Nashville, I stayed in Orlando, Trevor moved back to California. Eventually all of us wound up migrating back to California, and it was then that we decided this could be a prime opportunity for us to kind of put a project together.

“Skydive” seems to be getting great reviews.
Jacob: Our new single is the first like uptempo song that can actually be played in a nightclub or bar and have people dancing to it. It’s not just looked at as an adult contemporary ballad, it’s a song for pop radio, and can be played in a club.

How is it different this time around than the first time?
Trevor: I think one of the biggest differences we have, we always talk about the social media aspect. Just having the Twitter, the Instagram, the Facebook and all that – it’s very different. But it also is awesome because it gives the fans a chance to get into our lives, like they did before because we had the TV show, and we were very accessible media wise. I think [that] is the biggest difference. Erik, you wanna touch on the music?

Erik-Michael: Yeah, yeah. The music is different, the players are different. I guess that’s the biggest thing. When we first started – if there was a lack of welcoming from the industry, it was because of the television show, and everyone automatically thinks that we’re manufactured at that point. And the biggest difference this time around is that there isn’t any major player. There’s no Lou Pearlman. There’s no Clive Davis. There’s no MTV. There’s no ABC. We had the biggest entities in the music business behind our last project, and this time it’s really just us. We put in our announcement video when we started the project, and everything we said in that announcement was incredibly sincere. This time around it’s only us. We’ve embraced it. We have 70% of the album that we’ve co-written, and Dan did all the design work for the album, so all of the concepts are coming from us. So everything that you see coming out of “Lines and Circles,” our new album, has all been touched by O-Town. This is the first real O-Town product that people are going to get a taste of.

Any brand new groupies?
Erik-Michael: Not yet, still the old ones. They’re 25 now, 26, so that’s cool.

Erik, if you could trade places with anyone, alive or dead, famous or not famous, for a week, who would you choose?
Erik-Michael: If I could change my life for a week…
Trevor: Derek Jeter.
Erik-Michael: I would be Derek Jeter right now. That’s a good one, Trevor, I love you for that. I was gonna be Michael Jordan in ‘96, but Derek Jeter retiring, going on his last hurrah, I think that would be awesome. I’m from New York. Of course, Derek Jeter, absolutely!

If you were a superhero, what kind of powers would you want?
Jacob: Dan would be Invisible Man.

Trevor, if you were a porn star, what would your name be?Trevor: Trevor Penick! You know that game you play on the street, when you pick your pet’s name and the street you grew up on – whatever? My name would be…my porn name would be Lee Centers.

If Hollywood were to make a movie out of you, who would you want to play you?
Erik-Michael: Trevor would be Will Smith.
Jacob: I’ve been told like seriously since I’ve been in seventh grade that I look like a Wahlberg so I’ll say Mark Wahlberg, but I’m sure James Franco can play me.
Erik-Michael: I think I’d have Antonio Banderas play me. Why not? He’s a strapping Latin man. And Dan, you could put Ryan Gosling for Dan.
Jacob: No Dan, you can put David Schwimmer.

As a band, what’s your strongest quality?
Jacob: Our uniqueness. Most bands grow up together in high school or college, they hang out, but if you see us, we definitely don’t look like we hang out. We’re very… we’re four different guys.

Erik, what’s Trevor’s worst quality or trait.
Erik-Michael: Trevor’s worst quality? I don’t know about his worst quality, but his most embarrassing quality is constantly bringing up old things like old mistakes that you’ve made that you’ve totally forgot about – like 14 years ago. “Remember when you totally missed that dance step, 14 years ago?” He definitely pulls that every once in a while.

Jacob, what’s Dan’s worst quality?
Jacob: His pessimism. Dan’s the guy you’re always talking to, “Yeah – it’s gonna be OK man,” “Trust me, it’s gonna be fine.”

Anyone can answer this one. What’s Erik’s worst quality?Trevor: Wait, wait! I don’t get a turn?

Trevor, go for it. Go ahead and answer both Erik’s and Jacob’s worst trait.Trevor: Yeah – leave me out. OK, this is Trevor on Jacob. Call it whatever you want, but one of his bad qualities is also a good quality, and it’s his stubbornness. I think Erik’s worst quality is his “introvertism,” his ability to block out everything that is going on around him and focus on just whatever he’s doing.
Erik-Michael: It’s a good and bad trait, because I tend to block out people when I probably shouldn’t block out people. But it’s something that allows me to focus too – you know, just like Jacob, it’s our strength and our weakness.

Where do you hope to be in another 10 years?
Erik-Michael: Hopefully still making awesome music and touring around. Making money doing what we love.

“Lines and Circles” will be released August 24. The guys tell us the next single will be “Chasing After You,” which is the album’s first track. Start requesting it on your favorite radio stations today! And don’t miss O-Town’s New York City appearance on November 4 at Irving Plaza. Tickets are available via Ticketmaster and the O-Town website.

Source: GetOutMag

Monday, August 25, 2014

Not a Liquid Dream: O-Town's Back, Baby. But Where’s Ashley?

The last great boy band of the early 2000s, O-Town, is back with Lines and Circles.

Erik-Michael Estrada, Dan Miller, Trevor Penick, and Jacob Underwood, all now in their mid-30s, wade back into the boy band game, after a 30-second ‘N SYNC reunion at last year’s VMAs and the great Backstreet Boys cruise of 2014. Though they shed one member along the way (the requisite heartthrob, Ashley Parker Angel, declined to be part of the comeback), Underwood says it was only a matter of time before the band got back together—but first, they had to find the right management.

“That was a big part of it, finding the right team,” he says. “Once we felt like we had a good team around us and we were all somewhat close in area, it just felt like the right time. And then it hit 10 years so we felt like it was now or never.”

O-Town was the product of ABC’s Making the Band, a pre-American Idol reality show that whittled down hundreds of boy band hopefuls to five future “superstars.” Lou Pearlman, the mastermind behind LFO, ’N SYNC, and the Backstreet Boys (and a Ponzi scheme enthusiast largely remembered now as one of pop music’s sleaziest swindlers) was the show’s puppet master, overseeing every audition to handpick his next hitmakers. The experiment was a success: In 2001, O-Town went platinum with their eponymous debut and “Liquid Dreams” and “All or Nothing,” their most popular singles, hit no. 10 and no. 3 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart, respectively.

But then the dream ended. O-Town’s sophomore record, O2, delayed numerous times before its release, moved far fewer units than the band’s debut and, by November of 2003, the group had been dropped from J Records and disbanded. The era of denim-on-denim boy bands was over—until, with the rise of another group of reality show-made teen pop idols, One Direction, it wasn’t.

The voices harmonizing on Lines and Circles are huskier than they were 11 years ago—but the quartet is still, undeniably, a boy band in all their hook-laden, lovestruck glory. “Skydive,” the album’s lead single, is an early-aughts throwback with a modern sheen, a theme worked heavily into the album to please old fans. It seems to have worked: While touring Europe for the first time in 12 years this past summer, O-Town was greeted in droves by die-hard loyalists at airports and venues.

Erik, Trevor, Jacob and Dan talked to The Daily Beast about their return to music, bad fashion choices, dirty lyrics, and returning to the stage without Ashley Parker Angel.

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The first thing I wanted to say is, for the record, Erik, I like the album cover you came up with.

DAN, TREVOR, JACOB: (Laughter.)

ERIK: Yeah man, my ass was too big.

What are your plans for this reunion? Do you want to tour America? Or maybe line up a cruise boat like the Backstreet Boys?

JACOB: Yeahhh, let’s do a cruise!

TREVOR: Yes. Please.

JACOB: You guys plan it, we’ll go.

DAN: We’re just trying to take it one step at a time. The 10 years away gave us good perspective. We realized as quickly as it comes, it can go away so we’re just trying to have fun this time and embrace everything in the moment. Right now we have a bunch of shows lined up. We did a bunch of shows in Europe. And whatever comes in the future, we’re looking forward to.

You guys disbanded after only your second album and then we pretty much didn’t hear from you again until now. What was life like as you fell out of the spotlight?

TREVOR: It was pretty much what it was before we got into it. It’s not like we were the biggest thing in the world for like 15 years and then we had to go into obscurity. It wasn’t that hard for us to just go back and be normal again. It wasn’t that hard for me, I don’t know how it was for the other guys—I assume it was the same. We went through an audition and then we worked for four years and then we each went and did our own individual things.

DAN: There was an adjustment period though because it’s like, no matter how far we move away from the band, it wasn’t like, “This is Dan.” It was always, “This is Dan from O-Town. This is Erik from O-Town.” But even though it had been at some point, nine years since the group had been together, it was like always gonna stick with you, so it was like the same questions over and over. I actually enjoyed getting away from the spotlight and celebrity but at the same time, you had to come to grips with the fact that it was never going to leave completely. Like even though you weren’t on TV every week or on the radio all the time, people were always gonna recognize you [and] associate you with the group.

Music has changed so much in the past decade, where do you see O-Town fitting in now?

ERIK: I think the best way for us to stay relevant is to stay true to ourselves. That being said, I know all of us have acquired new tastes in music. Our tastes are just, across the board, super eclectic, so I think staying true to ourselves and saying, “All right, this is what we do. Let’s see how we can add a contemporary feel to all the music that we have,” keeping that music fresh is exactly what’s gonna keep us relevant and keep us around. All four of us pretty much have a good pulse of what’s hot and where we wanna go. I think that’s the one thing that’ll help us stay around this time around.

Do you guys see yourselves in bands like One Direction, which were also brought together on a reality show?

ERIK: Oh, absolutely. That’s why people will be like, “Oh, you guys are from TV, like One Direction!” We had our opportunity and now they have their opportunity and we definitely see a lot of ourselves in them as they experience this thing on that major level. We look back and are like, “Wow. We experienced that.” And now they get to go through it and grow with their fans, just like we got an opportunity to grow with our fans. And hopefully 10 years later, they can get together and put out an album that they can be proud of just like we’re proud ofLines and Circles.

Is there any advice you would give modern boy bands?

JACOB: I’d say just enjoy every day. Like we are examples of how it goes as quickly as it comes and you never know what’s gonna happen to your life, but day-to-day if you’re enjoying it and really experiencing the moment without looking too far ahead or too far behind.

What has getting back together been like without Ashley Parker Angel?

ERIK: I think it changed the focus a bit, where we knew that—you know, let’s be honest, when we first started, he was the face of the band. We were selling records to young girls, it was clear that he was, you know, the fan favorite back then. But we knew that moving forward without him, we have to stand on something a little more solid. We had to make sure that the music was really there, fun and introspective at the same time. And I think that’s the biggest difference now: We’re relying solely on our album and our live performance. There is nothing else that’s driving this group.

When was the last time you guys spoke to him?

ERIK: He texted us about a few weeks ago, just to kind of give us a congratulatory text on “Skydive” and the video. It was a classy move on his part. But I haven’t spoken to him physically in quite some time.

DAN: I went out to lunch with him recently and it was just like old times. I think he just wasn’t interested in being in the band right now, it was a risk he wasn’t willing to take. And the four of us were.

Is he an underwear model now? That’s what I gleaned from his Instagram photos.

ALL: [Laugh.]

TREVOR: Yeah, I think he is pursuing modeling, I think that’s what I gather from all his Instagram photos. I think that’s what he’s trying to do.

DAN: I think you might have to ask him what’s going on with the underwear pictures.

What are the other main differences between the O-Town of now and a decade ago?

ERIK: We’re wiser now, I think that’s the number one thing. We have that opportunity right now to do what we did when we were younger but with the minds we have now and the work ethic. Everyone has improved, thankfully. The bottom line is it comes down to having improved as a person, so the amount of input and contribution from every single member of the band has just been in spades. That just was not present before at all and it truly is this time around. I mean, Dan has done all of the design work for the album, including the butt shot, Jacob with the management and Trevor with the live performances, and myself with songwriting. All of us have contributed so much to it. That’s the major difference.

DAN: The music industry is always going to be shady. It’s always gonna be a tough business to stay in. But what’s changed for us is, like Erik said, the knowledge that we gained and the bad experiences that we were able to build on in the past to make sure we protect ourselves no matter what going forward.

Was working with Lou Pearlman one of those bad experiences?

JACOB: We could categorize working with Lou Pearlman as both bad and good because we learned what not to do and how to spot faulty characters. And then the experience of working with Clive Davis was a great one. We learned about big business and how the big labels do it, and how it runs, a big machine. Those aren’t bad experience but it definitely shaped how we view the industry now and where we see that we fit and the role that we play.

What was life like at the height of O-Town’s popularity, when “Liquid Dreams” was on the radio? You guys were so young and fame came about very quickly for you because of Making the Band.

TREVOR: We were definitely, like 21 years old, 20. It was a whirlwind. Literally, we had something to do every single day. We toured and did 300 shows in a year, we had like four days off the whole year in like, 2001. It was just a whirlwind. It’s hard to remember…We all have great memories of it and remember small, little things but it’s hard to remember specifically a lot of what it was because it was so crazy.

ERIK: I think it was intense at first because it was a television show. That television show really sparked the whole process, it just created such a high standard for us. We had to work so hard just to even think of matching that standard. Like Trevor said, it was a blur.

Now for the fun part: Let’s talk about the clothes you guys wore back then.

ALL: (Laughter.) Oh no…

Honestly, as far as boy bands in the early 2000s go, your clothes weren’t as outlandish as, say, ‘N SYNC’s. But I did see a photo of Dan wearing a see-through mesh tank top and there were some studded belts, baggy pants…

DAN: I’m not sure what you’re talking about with this mesh tank top thing. I don’t know what you’re talking about.

TREVOR: We were kind of the last boy band through that window in the 2000s, and because we were always compared to ‘N SYNC and Backstreet Boys, it was intentional on our part to be a little bit less cohesive than they were, a little bit less matchy-matchy. We’re all individuals, so we were trying to have a little more individual style. But unfortunately, along that way, we had some mesh tank tops and we had some baggy denim Sean John jumpsuits—

JACOB: Sean John!

TREVOR: There were some bad decisions. But let’s be honest, Melissa, we don’t exactly have pictures of you in the 2000s, I don’t think you’d be impressed with what you wore either.

[Laughs] Fair point. Although denim-on-denim is actually making a comeback, like what you guys wore on your first album cover.

JACOB: Yes it is, totally. Totally.

ERIK: Just not two sizes too big.

JACOB: Exactly.

So I listened to “Liquid Dreams” again for the first time in a few years and noticed it’s a pretty dirty song for a boy band.

TREVOR: Well we know the whole time exactly what it meant. But when we first started, our main core audience was 14, 15 years old and there’s no way we dropped records saying “It is what it is.” For those who knew, they knew, and for those who were young and didn’t know, they clearly found out when they were old enough to find out. [Laughs] But if you look back at the anthology of O-Town, we’re pretty much a dirty band. We sang a lot of risqué songs that were kind of like under the radar ’cause of how cleverly they were put together, but I meancome on. “Fitting Together Nicely,” “Every Six Seconds”? The list goes on and on.

“I wanna go inside every corner / Girl, you really turn me on / I wanna go knock, knock our bodies to the beat”? That’s intense.

DAN: We’re actually talking about going inside of a dance club and knocking on the door. Like, “knock, knock” trying to get in.

TREVOR: [Laughs] We weren’t talking about that. “Fitting Together Nicely” was about being physically with a girl and “Liquid Dreams” was about nocturnal emissions, I’m just gonna go ahead and say it.

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Source: thedailybeast.com

RenownedForSound: Review: O-Town - Lines And Circles

"Originally formed as a result of Amerian reality TV series Making the Band in 2000, O-Town released two albums and achieved some commercial success before splitting up in 2003. Now, four of the five original members have reformed the group and recorded new material for their third album, Lines & Circles. It will be interesting to see how they have adapted to the current pop scene in the years since their original split.

Opening track Chasin’ After You stays true to the band’s roots with a catchy track. Though the vocals on the verses leave something to be desired, the chorus works just fine. One of the later verses invokes the names of various A-list female celebrities such as Scarlett Johansson and Jennifer Lawrence as a means of complimenting the song’s female subject. This really proves how up-to-date the band is, even if it is through a simple love song like this.

The melancholy lost-love ballad Skydive makes for a surprising yet decent about-face with its usage of piano and strings. Unlike the previous track, the hook in the chorus sounds slightly off-beat to me, which is a shame considering how good the rest of the song sounds. Rewind stands out with its distinctive beat and moody synthesiser melody. The vocals here alternate between soulful R&B crooning and competent yet unspectacular rapping. The synthesiser in particular makes this track a highlight.

The band then decides to vary their sound further by bringing guitars into the mix. Playing with Fire starts with guitars but reverts back to synthesisers soon enough – a decision that renders the song merely okay. Conversely, I Won’t Lose ends up emphasising the guitar while laying off the synthesisers and is no better or worse in terms of quality than Playing With Fire. Right Kind of Wrong marks another guitar-driven song, however this time it’s used in a more upbeat manner. The lyrics are uncomplicated party lyrics about pursuing a romantic interest complete with one verse full of rapping, but these differences only make for a slight improvement.

Buried Alive drops the synthesised elements of the band’s music completely to make for a slow ballad that only features acoustic guitars in addition to the singing. Unfortunately, the stripping down of the band’s sound isn’t enough to make the song especially interesting and it feels like a novelty more than anything else. Got to Go brings back the piano sound to good effect in a soulful number with a swaggering rhythm, but once again the song is merely passable. It’s followed up by another sad piano-based song with Sometimes Love Ain’t Enough. At least the hook on this one is an improvement, if a slight one. Appropriately enough, the titular closing track brings things full-circle through the return of the synthesiser-heavy sound of the first track. Certainly one of the more soulful numbers, the synthesisers here service the song better than piano or guitar ever could and it’s a good way to close the album.

It’s all too easy to be cynical and see Lines & Circles as a cash-grab by a band trying to ride the current wave of early-2000s nostalgia, but it seems like the remaining members of O-Town have put some serious effort into making a worthwhile album. I certainly can’t fault them for trying and the result certainly isn’t lazy, but it definitely sounds limited. For all the different instruments and styles that feature on this album, the music on display is of inconsistent quality and ultimately the whole album just sounds average. I’ll certainly recommend it to people who want a trendy-sounding pop band that can sound cheerful and lovelorn with equal amounts of sincerity, but those of you who want something with a bit more substance are advised to look elsewhere."

Source: RenownedForSound.com

Sunday, August 24, 2014

#LinesAndCircles are OUT right NOW!

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"Ok I'm kinda excited for #linesandcircles@otownofficial"

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Go and get your very own copy of #LinesAndCircles here:

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ALBUM REVIEW: O-Town – ‘Lines & Circles’

"Forget “Skydive.” As much as that song helped O-Town announce to the world that they were back, “Chasin’ After You” marks the boy band’s definitive opening statement. Many have hastily noted O-Town as the “poor man’s BSB,” and while ‘Lines & Circles’ does spend its time primarily in the presence of ballads such as the album’s title track, it is ultimately a singular, unique piece of work that earns the listener’s patience and rewards that in spades.

“Chasin’ After You” is by far the most upbeat song on the album, but as the rest of the album plays, any worries can be erased. The album is full of solid, easily identifiable hooks, and the instrumentation never attempts to threaten to distract from O-Town’s vocal performances.

“Rewind” forges its own identity. “When love was a drug and we couldn’t get enough of each other / Baby, every night / You and I,” the boys sing during the chorus. ” Stop / Rewind / Pause / Why / Live in this moment of time / Stimulate body and mind,” Trevor raps. It’s an aggressive track that provides a fascinating amount of bite.

For the majority of ‘Lines & Circles,’ O-Town makes good on their comeback. Because while ballad-focused albums can oftentimes be a drag, these four guys devotion to their craft, and the honesty that’s poured out in these recordings, is enough to know that this is one solid piece of work – so solid that for a split second, you forget Ashley Parker Angel was even a part of the band in the first place – no disrespect! It’s just that good. This is definitely an album you will want to listen to…and tell all your friends about.

Purchase ‘Lines & Circles’ on iTunes here."

Source: briannechantal