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Album Review

Mando Diao
Ode to Ochrasy EMI

Article written by Paul M - May 7, 2007

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Frenetic Swedish Anglophile popsters Mando Diao apparently wrote this album as a reflection of their experiences on recent tours, with the ‘ochrasy’ of the title being a made-up word to describe the early hours events and interactions with people, particularly girls. It’s a nice story and although the lyrics are frequently downbeat the music is most decidedly not. With pounding drums and hearty riffs the formula is fairly rigidly adhered to, the pace pretty much relentlessly fast for the first half at least and the spirit decidedly rock n roll.

It's perhaps telling that when they do vary the tempo for the second half of the album, the quality becomes patchy and with eighteen tracks spread over nearly an hour it is unquestionably not one to play in its entirety too often. However, dipped into, the hooky happy powerpop does the biz.

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