Album review: Ocean Grove – ODDWORLD

In ODDWORLD, the riffs are loud, the party spirit’s high and the freak flags fly at full mast. This is Ocean Grove​’s universe, and the philosophies that rule it were even put to paper in a detailed manifesto when they released their 2017 debut The Rhapsody Tapes. Now on album four, plastering this word on the album cover feels like a renewed statement of the Melbourne crew’s identity. The irony is, however, that at points the record lives up to its name in the opposite way from which it intended. Ocean Grove’s knack for cranking out the sort of bangers that make you want to pour yourself a pint and buy a one-way ticket somewhere sunny has arguably never been appreciated enough. Nonetheless, they’ve not stopped churning them out. The monstrous chorus of FLY AWAY, f...

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