mock orange

One way to overcome a lack of inspiration or self-satisfying lyrics—otherwise known as writer's block—is simply to write about it. There's no doubt some of these are the laziest songs ever written, byproducts of killing time until the next track, while others are the result of hitting a few creative speed bumps on their way […]

Evansville, Indiana's Mock Orange are streaming a new song titled “High Octane Punk Mode” as part of Wednesday Records' Fall 2014 Sampler. This is their first material since 2011's Disguised As Ghosts, their fifth studio album, which was also reviewed on AltPress. It's worth noting the track was mastered by Angus Cooke, who engineered their debut LP, 1998's Nines […]

Mock Orange Disguised As Ghosts   Mock Orange's first proper studio album in nearly three years takes the band's kinky indie-pop/rock and truncates it significantly. Even as the years have found the band completely leaving behind the scrappy, squiggly guitars and the late-’90s emo earnestness of their earlier material and embracing sonically textured, quirky compositions, […]