Freak Owls (the alias of Brooklyn native, Josh Ricchio) was created from an amalgamation of ideas, restlessness, and frustrations after spending the previous 15 years playing and touring in a wide variety of collaborative indie rock bands. The desire to lock himself in a room and write what he calls, "catchiness incarnate" became too great.      The first two releases ("Taxidermy", "Orchestrates EP") pull influences from The Beach Boys, MGMT, Death Cab For Cutie and Yeasayer while textured, over-layering vocal choruses, sparkling acoustics, and Gnarls Barkley-like danceable beats urge the listener to curl up to the songs and sing along at the same time.  "…a very personal and uplifting set of smiles and moist eyes, Freak Owls wants to warm the heart and chill the spine."       All albums were released released on Ricchio's label, Sing Engine Records.