Wednesday, January 22, 2025

Octopie - Green Divine (2024)

The third album from this band from Finland.

The band was a quintet with a lineup of drums, percussion, bass, guitars, keyboards, flute, trumpet and vocals.

A guest delivered flute on some tracks.

I did not expect to get another album from this band after their very good 2012 debut album Fresh From The Oven and the self-titled EP from 2013. Both of them reviewed in 2014 for # 1 of this blog.

I have just recently also discovered, well after I was starting to listen to their new album Green Divine that they had indeed released their second album in 2015. I will review that album sometimes next month.

Green Divine is a two CDs, eighty-six minutes long album.

The music sounds like a rock opera as the music is all over the place and got this concept album/rock opera almost screaming at the listener.

Eclectic prog is also a label worthy this album. The music and the good vocals is in the vaudeville theatres genre with some falsetto opera singing, a bit classical music, some very quirky prog and some laidback jazz and rock too.

The music is in other words weird. It is still a rewarding experience, this almost one and an half an hour long album.

Not all here is good but it deserve some credit for it's audacity and weirdness. Hence it deserves a good rating as one of the more weird and original albums from last year.

3 points

 

 


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