And what a welcome we get from you, you big old lovely place, with your dadaist oops of history sliced into regularity, Calvinism, and theories of relativity and space-time inconstancy. Sold out at Klub Helsinki, and Room absolutely rocks the entire crowd two or three inches off the floor. We hit the stage running, scrape our knees a little, but the crowd carries us through. ....

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Powerpop? Well, we don't know about that, but here's a nice little piece of press about our show in St. Gallen, Switzerland.


Frischer, intelligenter Powerpop aus New York

St. Gallen Tagblatt, Aug 22, 2006

Rorschach/St. Gallen.
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Im Minivan durch Europa
Morex Optimo entstanden im Zuge der Jüngsten Explosion innovativen Rocks aus Brooklyn, fanden aber in keiner ger gängigen Schubladen Platz. In ihrer neusten Version spielt die Band lebendigen, verzwickten Pop. Um den Abgang von Bassist Yuri Weber zu verkraften, verschanzte sich das Kernduo Kristofer Widholm (Gitarre, Gesang) und Heather Wagner (Schalgzeug, Gesang) vergangenen Winter mit dem Produzenten Jay Braun (Jon Spencer Blues Explosion, Mooney Suzuki) im Studio. Braun blieb als Bassist bei Morex Optimo hängen. Das Quartett wird durch die warme Stimme and die knackigen Gitarrenriffs von Kerry Kennedy vervollständigt.

We're honored, thrilled, flattered, hammered and borderline diarrheaic with excitement that we've got Negatone and Kapow!ist Jay Braun on bass and former Blue Spark, Overlordess and Anabolic Kerry Kennedy on guitar for our upcoming European tour!

Jay recorded, mixed and produced our three song EP, which sounds amazing! And if sitting together lo those many hours at close quarters til the wee hours of the morn for months on end didn't make him sick of us, probably nothing will, certainly not a coupla weeks in the Swiss Alps. We hope.

The amazing Kerry Kennedy is taking time off from her band(s) to come play guitar with us too! Come say goodbye to us at Sin-e on August 15, we leave the next day for a 2-week European tour with ROOM. http://myspace.com/roomtheband

Please have a listen to our new songs and let us know what you think.