If was simply an effort to get proper recordings of the tween love songs wrote in his days, The OOZsees really spreading his wings. Where guitars were front and center for the duration of 6 Feet (probably to make some sort of statement), on this outing, Marshall seems much more comfortable showing his hip-hop anddance influences. His mesmerizing patchwork of celestial pads, -indebted sample chops, street sax,post-punk beats and jazz guitar licks is tactfully interspersed with pirate radio ambience and -esque rainfall. Peep him flexing his incredible range on codeine bossa nova joint Logos, basement punk showcannonball Emergency Blimp and sublime jazz meditation The Cadet Leaps; all mesmerizing. He settles into a bizarrelyaddictive Monster Mash flow on album highlight Dum Surfer, urgently trading barswith a spooky, alter ego like. Marshall may only be 24, but OOZ is clearly the work of a grown man. In fact, the onlytime he shows his age is in thinking Czech One would make for a clever song title (sounds like something I would have thought was cute at 24, only the music would have been 100x worse; alternatively, this kid wrote Out Getting Ribs when he was just 16). Marshall builds a world you can completely lose yourself in, withloads more atmosphere than 6FBTM (think producing ). Themes repeat themselves, and much like, say, any great jazz record, you never know if youre halfway in or halfway out at any point. Black double vinyl pressing housed in gatefold jacket; recommended.
- black double vinyl pressing
- housed ingatefold jacket w/ printed inner sleeves
- digital download included
- music label:True Panther Sounds 2017
