Fish in Oil - Sve Ce Biti U Najboljem Redu (2018)

"It's hard to record an album after the masterpiece. Not only will the audience always expect more, and the critique is looking for a strong enough motive for something new, but the artist naturally asks the question - did I go a step further?
The composition of Fish In Oil was precisely in such a situation: the album "3 keys", their third studio edition, was an epic achievement, and indeed a masterpiece. The longest album in the history of popular music in this region has captured all of the various sparkles of the fantasy of Braca Radovanovic, a rich spectrum of marvelous colors of music that are so skillfully matched in a compact image, illuminating the rocker-punk drive and the great improvisational gift of the individuals of this collective in the long duration of individual pieces.

Should it have been repeated? If Fish In Oil is used to us that in their music it will always be "enough for everyone," and if that maxim reached its ultimate heights on the previous edition, would they, as confirmed artists, be happy to just do a routine job? The answer is on an album that you are able to listen to: you have not resorted to the easiest solution.

To be understood right away: that does not mean that they made up new music. Only from the abundance of their characters have decided to single out this time, not in terms of one genre where they would build a whole new program, but one prevailing ambience - pure romance. So, if we were expecting on this album already a live concert "Where are you right?" (which at one point also figured as the main track on this album), or if someone wanted another fri-jazz tangle in the manner of "Freedom is expensive," such ambients did not fit into this imaginary concept. They'll see their other way.

Romanticism is even better recognized in faster songs "Friday", "Proletarian Solidarity" and "Hipsterluk". The first is a true gift of time when the rock and roll was cute and innocent, in obsessive exchanges of surf-guitar and a simple line on the saxophone, along with the reaper of Bane Radojkovic and Feđa Franklin. We could think of others as a summer song of Second Five, the title was not randomly selected. The third is a homage to the Morrison version of the blues standard "Baby, Please Do not Go", and Van The Man was a romantic and when he was most craving. With the introductory "Special Case", which has the role of the legendary "Peter Gunn Theme" Henry Mansini, the FIO clearly positioned itself to the end of the happy fifties, while the decibels still did not begin to eat those who created them, so, if you want, and while not yet a delineation between the world of jazz, which has already described the first circles, and a rokenrol that shyly reported. And that's the essence of Fish In Oil.

The "White Fountain", the longest track on the album, opens a wider space for Radovanovic and Dusan Petrovic, but the clock is calm, about 50 bits per minute, and does not hurry to any one: it will only mingle with the flow of time without tension, climbing and culmination, just like a background that you would hear in the head while traveling on the straight roads of America when the star buzzes.
"Jango Tango" and "Lisbon" have sticky melodies that can be easily sung, and easily exposed to the world to which the rock and jazz are distant. The headlines in both cases are cheating: there are also chansons and Russian novels, rumba of percussion, and the fisherman's blouse, and the Veith's kitsch, and hotel gardens on the Adriatic in the sixties, and none of it-but both of you are unexplainably fond of your heart. "Last Dance" has the best introduction to the album, with the unison of acoustic guitar and saxophone in the light durable ballad theme, but surprisingly the Cuban Bolero is developing, under the fingers of Veljko Nikolic's Papa Nika percussion. Raj Kuder in the Balkans? You made it.

The "night dress" swings in the flesh of two double bass, Banet's light beats and strings of guest Pavel Popov. The bells of buzzing, ringing bells, the saxophone is just cool, and the guitar gently bites. It's Fish In Oil at full power, when emotions cling to a complete atmosphere, becoming directors of the old school, with great patience for grinding details.
And - "Everything will be fine". Bane in the rege trip, Fiona is quiet, Nick saves, Brothers and Dule on the same questions and answers, to bite you to think so that you can do it all night. In fact, remember this recurrence as a mantra mantra until the next listening.

Tracklist:

1. Poseban slučaj
2. Sve će biti u najboljem redu
3. Petak
4. Bela česma
5. Django tango
6. Hipsterluk
7. Poslednji ples
8. Proleterska solidarnost
9. Lisabon
10. Noćna haljina