Friday, October 4, 2024

Ozul - Man on the Shore (2024)

The second album from this one-man-band from Norway.

Ozul is Paulo Chavarria on guitars, electronics and vocals.

Paulo is originally from Costa Rica, Latin-America but he has settled in Bergen, Norway. Two albums has so far been released and I reviewed the debut album last month and awarded it a good rating.

The music on the 2023 debut album Provenance was a mix of art-rock, psych rock and heavy prog. Porcupine Tree and Marillion is two good references here.

That is also the case on this album. There is a lot more electronica and cinematic rock this time around though. Even some djent can be found here.

The music is very much expanded and has a lot more influences.

There is still a melancholic undertone in the music. The music is a mix of mid-tempo and heavier prog. 

The vocals is really good. The absence of some killer tunes is my only gripe with this album. Paulo can go far with this project if he wrote and recorded some even better songs than the ones on his first two albums.

3 points

 

 

 

 

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