Artist: Declan O’Donovan
Album: Amok
Genre: Folk Rock, Psychedelic Rock, Baroque Pop
Release Date: 2023
Audio Format:: FLAC (tracks) 24 bit, 48 kHz
Duration: 45:50
Total Tracks: 9
Total Size: 502 MB

Tracklist:

01. Declan O’Donovan – Within The Pale (05:16)
02. Declan O’Donovan – Every Revolution Around the Sun (04:07)
03. Declan O’Donovan – Get The Behind the Wheel (05:11)
04. Declan O’Donovan – Many Years From Now (05:02)
05. Declan O’Donovan – All the World Above You (03:54)
06. Declan O’Donovan – Maggie (02:57)
07. Declan O’Donovan – People That We All Know (04:00)
08. Declan O’Donovan – God Fearing Men (05:59)
09. Declan O’Donovan – More Was Said Than Done (09:21)

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Within the earthy, baroque psychedelia of his 3rd album, Amok, Declan O’Donovan meditates on losing track of time. It’s a phenomenon we’re all intimately familiar with—”a pedestrian and profound thing to do,” as the Yukon songwriter puts it. Amok is hardly a linear narrative, though, with a beginning, middle, and end; the album and the characters who populate it twist and pull time, fall out of it and into it, find themselves transformed by it. Songs go off the rails and expand themselves defiantly as O’Donovan inhabits their narrators—a hospital patient; a character in an Edgar Allen Poe story; people trapped on sinking ships or floating in space with satellites and dark matter.

“I lived on the Californian coast, hiked through the boreal forest, borrowed from friends and family, stole from Exodus and Joseph Campbell,” O’Donovan says. “I lit a fire, fell asleep, got woke, got high, got Covid, got angry at the church, lost my keys, and split the atom.”

Throughout it all, perhaps because of it all, “time gets disrupted, reveals itself to be uncontrollable,” he says. “Runs amok.”