OK ORCHESTRA by AJR

OK ORCHESTRA is the fourth studio album by American indie pop band AJR. It was released on March 26, 2021 by the band's own label AJR Productions, an imprint of BMG Rights Management. The album was produced by group member Ryan Met. In February 2020, AJR released the album's first single, Bang!, originally planned to be included on a deluxe version of their third album, Neotheater (2019). It ended up becoming one of the trio's biggest hits. On August 31, 2020 they released the album's second single, "Bummerland," a song about the band sarcastically expressing their feelings on the COVID-19 pandemic. On December 20, 2020, they announced that OK ORCHESTRA would be the name of their upcoming album. It was put up for pre-order on iTunes/Apple Music and showed that the album contained 13 tracks. AJR released the album's third single "Way Less Sad" and its music video on February 17, 2021. On March 21, 2021, AJR launched OKO World, an interactive experience playable on their official website. On March 26, 2021, the day that the album was released, they released a music video for both "OK Overture" and "World's Smallest Violin." The album received favorable to mixed reviews from critics, A.D. Amorosi of Variety described the album as "harmonically vocalized, hyper-memoir-centric, atmospheric mélange of pop, hip-hop, and doo-wop with quirky rhythms and a salting of smart-assed They Might Be Giants for tart taste". OK ORCHESTRA debuted at number 10 on the US Billboard 200 dated April 10, 2021, becoming AJR's second top-10 album. It earned 32,000 album-equivalent units, including 13,000 pure album sales. Although OK ORCHESTRA placed at number 55 on the midweek UK Albums Chart dated March 29, 2021, it did not place in the final listing on April 2. ℗ 2021 AJR Productions, LLC under exclusive license to BMG Rights Management (US) LLC