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Written by Kierstin Rzeska
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Sunday, 24 June 2007 |
Ode To Ochrasy
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Mute Records
Ode To Ochrasy is absolutely tantalizing! I kid you not, this is some seriously luscious spunk rock straight out of Sweden. |
 Mando Diao's third album is summed up perfectly in it's title. You will not find the word "Ochrasy" in any dictionaries whether English or Swedish.
The word was coined by the band to describe their own world and Ode To Ochrasy is, without a doubt, everything that makes up the world of Mando Diao- a mixture of people, places and things.
These songs are packed full of the mysterious European stamina akin to that of brit-rock forefathers Oasis and The Beatles. Um, not to put Mando Diao in the same category as either. Though Ohrasy is an awesome album it isn't quite the material of our rock Forefather's, but a clever successor.
This smorgasbord of songs is inspired by the characters they've come across in their lives no matter how intimately. One even begins to feel as if they also know "Josephine" and "Tony Zoulias (Lustful Life)."
| If Ode is a smorgasbord (and it is) then every track is delicious, but "The Wildfire (If It Was True)" is no doubt, desert.
I might just go on a road trip solely to listen to the sunny, youthful fourth track.
That's actually probably not going to happen given I don't have a license- but if I did, then, well you can be sure I would have this song blowing through my hair with the wind and out the open windows followed by the equally mouth-watering "Morning Paper Dirt" and "The New Boy".
"Song for Aberdeen" with it's playful chorus of voices about a girl who wears "too much makeup round her eyes" and the title track "Ochrasy" are the perfect tracks to end this entirely sweet album. | | |
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