Australia’s Ocean Grove information us monitor by monitor by their new album ‘ODDWORLD’, out now through Sharptone Data.
“OG FOREVER is type of just like the Oddworld mantra. A motto to stay and breathe in the event you’re an OG die-hard. This monitor introduces the thought of the Oddworld Collective in a really direct manner, highlighting a key contribution from studio member Operating Contact. This monitor might sound acquainted to some long run followers which were paying consideration. This pattern has truly existed in some type for a few years now, however had solely ever been heard in a stay setting, as opening pattern to the OG set some years again. Put it this manner, when you hear this quantity by the audio system you understand you’ve entered the Oddworld.”
“CELL DIVISION was conceived in components originally of the album course of and solely pieced collectively in its entirety on the very finish. There all the time appears to be one in all these on each OG album. We’ve had the primary riff written for the reason that days of Up In The Air Endlessly and we even have had the refrain line within the again pocket for fairly a while. Discovering a option to join these two dots proved difficult however worthwhile as this tune really feel like the proper option to introduce the heavier aspect of OG showing on this report while additionally sneaking a large singalong in inside the first couple of minutes of the album runtime.”
“FLY AWAY is one other monitor that had been within the again pocket for OG for some time and was being written across the similar time because the Up In The Air Endlessly period songs, but felt like a brand new revitalised departure from that sound and so warranted its personal separate launch. We had this tune written, recorded and able to put out (music video included) for a complete 12 months earlier than saying our label signing to SharpTone Data. Having to take a seat tight with this tune was an actual check of persistence and perception, however because the tune is all about OG reclaiming It’s id, independence and sense of possession transferring ahead, we wanted to make sure we had the Oddworld spinning excellent behind the scenes earlier than pulling the set off and launching into a brand new period and sound.”
“STUNNER is a favorite amongst the collective. That is one other monitor closely that includes the voice and contribution of Operating Contact. For a part of the album writing course of we rented a farmhouse Airbnb down in regional Victoria for per week and the bones of this monitor got here collectively in these classes. This farmhouse was overlooking rolling inexperienced pastures and shoreline with no neighbours or distractions in sight. It was a extremely nice likelihood for us to spend unfiltered high quality collectively and it was an essential reminder that we’re at our greatest and strongest as a unit after we are all collectively, as mates, actively collaborating and collaborating as a collective. We’re all actually wanting ahead to enjoying this tune, too. The groove of the primary riff and the bounce actually captures the power that we’re tremendous excited to transpose right into a stay setting. If there was ever an OG tune to have 10,000 folks leaping in unison to, that is the one.”
“RAINDROP is an instance of OG fusing just a few worlds of affect and concepts collectively and experimenting within the course of. This monitor was written in components – at the start lyrically and conceptually by Twiggy with the verse and refrain – then Sam took the concepts, as he normally does, and placing his producer hat on, tweaked them right into a format that might go well with the OG sound and stay efficiency. It’s the primary time on this report that we clearly see and listen to the contributions of Luke Holmes, one other member of the Oddworld Collective. We made a concerted effort on this report to present Luke’s distinctive and recognisable voice and magnificence its personal moments to shine. His signature enter can’t be denied and is a component and parcel to, the OG sound. RAINDROP is a really clear instance of the collaborative and experimental facet of Ocean Grove after we’re within the studio. The very best thought all the time win out, and if we will discover a option to piece all of them collectively, it doesn’t matter who they arrive from or what affect they draw upon. That’s what makes Oddworld Music so onerous to outline and pigeonhole.”
“NO OFFENCE DETECTED is an excellent enjoyable monitor and interlude that was within the wheelhouse of recorded concepts very early on in writing classes and really a lot impressed by the early 2000s CD expertise that we wished to seize with this report. All these enjoyable and random interludes have been merely the norm, and gave a lot character to a whole lot of data we grew up listening to, but are so uncommon to seek out these days. We nonetheless extremely worth the long-form album expertise and the necessity to create a narrative from begin to end, with moments to breathe and course of the peaks, twists and turns. That bassline couldn’t be denied a spot in ODDWORLD, let’s face it.”
“MY DISASTER is one other monitor that got here collectively in a whole lot of methods on the farmhouse journey talked about earlier. Once we wrote and recorded the refrain there was a unanimous buzz within the air. It felt like we had in that second captured the sound of this report and the darker, heavier, grittier, nu metallic aspect of OG had been re-awakened. It turned an opportunity for Dale to push himself vocally and to experiment with a method of vocal that had laid dormant since Black Label days. If we have been to call one monitor on the album that feels essentially the most collaborative and consultant of the Oddworld Collective firing on all cylinders, this might be it.”
“LAST DANCE is a tune that we’re all very pleased with and one we will’t wait to carry out stay. It captures and represents an emotive aspect to Ocean Grove that has existed from the start. It’s clearly the departure second on the report, leaving room to discover a extra heartfelt aspect to an in any other case hard-edged report. Lyrically this tune got here collectively one night on the farmhouse, while watching the setting solar fall beneath the rolling hills. This common visible proved to be the proper spark of inspiration and analogy for this monitor. The tune had been written instrumentally and it was clear that it warranted lyrics that might match the emotional weight and expanse of the music. Any sundown may very well be the final you ever witness, and being consciously current within the unavoidable impermanence of every thing round you might be a particularly gratifying factor (a temper we tried to seize with this monitor).”
“SOWHAT1999 was written to be a type of gateway drug to OG, capturing the essence of Oddworld Music. We acquired to a degree in finishing the album that we felt we wanted only one extra huge sounding monitor to accompany the likes of MY DISASTER, FLY AWAY and CELL DIVISION. There are numerous darker sides to this album, however with this tune a extra vibrant, free-spirited, tongue-in-cheek aspect to OG naturally bleeds by and is one thing our followers will recognise. We had a whole lot of enjoyable with this tune lyrically and it feels just like the type of monitor that each nu metallic band ought to have a minimum of one in all, that includes a whole lot of one-liners and euphemisms on the coronary heart of the Oddworld.”
“OTP is the intersection of previous good friend and collaborator Grownup Artwork Membership offering a beat and bass line that merely needed to seem on this report. We let Luke take full inventive management with this one lyrically and vocally. He went away and conjured some magic on this monitor in his personal time, with none of us within the studio and with no clue what he had in thoughts for it. The top outcome was nicely value being left at the hours of darkness and departing from our collective assume tank for a second. We all the time love writing the outro monitor to our albums, to depart our listener with a way of unanswered questions. Driving off into the sundown, considering the journey you’ve simply undertaken, anticipate this time it’s taking a stumble down a darkish alleyway. If something, this monitor takes you deeper into the OG lore like by no means earlier than, leaving issues on a cliff’s edge for what’s to return subsequent within the enlargement of the Oddworld.”