Artist : Osta Love

Album : About Time

Release Date : 03-07-2020

Added : 02-09-2020

'Osta Love' is a German project created by a duo, the multi-instrumentalist and singer 'Tobias Geberth' and the drummer 'Leon Ackermann'. They released at the beginning of July a new album 'About Time', their previous opus, 'Good Morning Dystopia' dating from 2013 and 'The Isles Of Dogs' from 2015. Classified in progressive, this latest baby explores different styles ranging from pop to energetic rock with melodic lines that are quickly tamed.

The album begins smoothly with 'We Can Do It Again', a very beautiful popist melody close to the 'Beatles', then, 'Oscillating' brings a more progressive component with a more varied rhythm and keyboard sounds which can make think about 'Pink Floyd', and 'Desert Shufle' returns to a harmonious pop with some jazzy incursions. With 'Moth To A Flame', the muscular introduction gives way to a catchy melody in an art rock style close to 'David Bowie', and 'Nights Of Aphelion' is a very beautiful melancholy ballad which is followed by an another ballad, 'The Waters Of The Nils', but this time closer to the psychedelic of the 'Floyds' with 'Gilmourian' guitars sounds and a very nice acoustic instrumental section. Total change of register with 'Amethyst Deceiver' which begins with a funky rhythmic and which continues in an imaginative and very original progressive development in which several quite different parts follow one another by forming a very beautiful whole and which has a remarkable finale for any progressive amateur. The album ends, as it started, very smoothly, with the semi-acoustic 'About Time' and with, one last time, the vocals of 'Tobias Geberth' which gently rock us.

In summary, with this new album from the Germans of 'Osta Love', the 2020 summer still brought us beautiful compositions in a calm and refined progressive style, between pop and rock, and 'About Time' is recommended to an audience navigating between pop and rock and appreciating accessible melodic lines...

Line Up / Musicians

Tobias Geberth (Guitar, Vocal, Keybords, Bass), Leon Ackermann (Drums, drums, Percussions)