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MANDO DIAO - Ode To Ochrasy
| Aversion | | In Mando Diao's third effort, Ode to Ochrasy, the Swedes pay tribute to a mythical time of night, those wee hours, after the show and after party, when normal people -- and most party people, too -- are in bed sleeping off the fun or preparing for another big day at the office. It's the place where a tail end of a beer buzz, the last charge onstage adrenaline rush and the lingering affects of that night's pharmaceuticals come together with the solitude and self-reflection that comes at four in the morning in a tour bus. If you're to believe Mando Diao, it's a fantastic world where anything's possible, where imagination runs the show and that curtain between dreams and reality is at its thinnest....full text |
| | Silent Urpoar | | Mando Diao have picked up the ball dropped by the mega-groups of England’s last golden age (1993-96) and are running with it. Ode to Ochrasy, the Swedish group’s third album, blends all that is exciting about rock music into a thrilling jet stream of sex and sonarchy. Although punk and pop elements are equally present, their songs are not limited by any defining element. Had Blur combined “Bank Holiday” with “To the End” into one song, the result might be something like "Killer Kaczynski." Wild and reckless punk rhythms support the sweetest melodies this side of the Beatles....full text |
| | Static Multimedia | | An "Ochrasy," the CD notes tell us, is Mando Diao's made up word to describe the early hours after a rock show. The band had plenty of source material to create this new verbal expression, as it had toured for eighteen months prior to making the disc. "Amsterdam," for example, describes a nightmarish evening where the singer falls into a river and also talks to God on the phone. They recorded this project with Bjorn Olsson, formerly of Soundtrack Of Our Lives - who is, like the band, Swedish - and it's a real winner....full text |
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