Obi Best

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When she’s not moonlighting as back-up singer for acclaimed retro-pop group the Bird and the Bee (Bluenote), Alex Lilly is masterminding the fanciful pop of Obi Best. With the help of a few Los Angeles-based friends and a sensibility that’s as at home with Stereolab as it is with Prokofiev, Lilly conjures music that’s complex and catchy — think geometry, double-dutch, and animated spin art.

Obi Best’s debut album, Capades, is a rich tapestry of piano, airy electronica, refined rock and panoramic beats deftly punctuated by bells and chirps and otherworldly sounds. Ranging from melodic and ethereal to rollicking and fun, the album inhabits a lush universe where fantasy and reality live side by side; here, Tokyo lies just around the block from Stockholm, youth and wisdom hold hands, magic seems to grow on trees.

Guiding the tour are Lilly’s clarion vocals, which call to mind Feist, or Karen Carpenter (with more traction). Singing about bygone eras, nasty neighbors, lovers’ covert ancestry, and the inadequacy of language all with disarming frankness, Lilly is both wide-eyed and watchful. It’s this odd pairing of innocence and worldliness, combined with Lilly’s irreverence and sass as a live performer, that makes Obi Best one of the more intriguing projects to come out of LA’s music scene in recent years.

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1	Nothing Can Come Between Us full track	79
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6	Green And White Stripes full track	33
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summerdreamin wrote:
November 2009

Cool....

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_Pr0digY_ wrote:
October 2009

It's clearly where the name Obi Best is coming from... sounds delightfull

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beckybartkowski wrote:
July 2009

Obi Best is amazing live. Reminds me a bit of Imogen Heap.

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herhelloishis wrote:
July 2009

The opening sounds borrowed from Elliot Smith.

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Quincesss wrote:
March 2009

I <3 them!

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johnwilmot wrote:
March 2009

Saw her here in Memphis ... truly fabulous.

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english_patient wrote:
February 2009

Great concert tonight in DC....yay!!!

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saucyunicorn wrote:
October 2008

xo LOVE IT

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GentlemanEmpire wrote:
September 2008

Exceptional album, I love it. I'm really connecting with "It's because of people like you," though.

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shoot1966 wrote:
August 2008

i-ka-su !

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allegroadagio wrote:
August 2008

ohhhhhhh! your album is perfect - i love it!

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ObiBest wrote:
August 2008

friends and listeners, capades digital album release starts aug. 25th BUT check out itunes... you just may find a lovely surprise xo

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	Nothing Can Come Between Us full track	2:55
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Feb 6 Larry Goldings Bootleg Theater, Los Angeles, CA, Los Angeles, United States
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Feb 13 Social Science's Lonely Hearts Club Social Science Loft, 530 Molino St. #217, Los Angeles, CA 90013, United States
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Mar 17 SXSW Music 2010 Austin Convention Center, Austin TX, United States
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