Okta Logue - Runway Markings (2019)

What will remain once you leave everything behind? Once you cut the grand gestures, the pressure, the expectations? What will remain when you just are? Oh, a hell of a lot. It is then that a distillate is showing – the thing that really counts. Pantha rhei, the ancient Greeks called it. "Runway Markings," Okta Logue call it. And with it, they will change the music year of 2019 more that they are currently aware of. Everything is easy with pathos and bombast – nothing is more apparent in the loud world of Rock and Roll. Without the common delusions of grandeur, however, you really have to come up with something.

With something like "Runway Markings." Yet, "Runway Markings" is no calm, no shy record. Quite the contrary, in fact. It is radiating dynamics, it is captivating, exhilarating, is growing into crescendos and welcomes in with an utterly holistic aura. Bred and raised in Hamburg's own Clouds Hill Studio, Okta Logue consciously left enough room for ideas to spread, for spontaneity, for spur of the moment things. "We wanted the songs to retain an untamed, uncontrollable edge. We simply watched where we would go once we stopped thinking everything through." "Runway Markings" is nothing but a salubrious piece of music, an album covering the listener like a blanket. Already after a few spins, it feels like an old friend, like a soul mate. Remarkably enough, Okta Logue pull off such a feat without an outcry, without alarm or bombast –and release the most touching tunes German Indie culture came up with in the recent past.



Track List:
01. Yesterday’s Ghosts
02. Devil’s Dance
03. River Street
04. Runway Markings
05. Part Of The Show
06. In Every Stream Home A Heartache
07. Interlude
08. Chocolate And Soda
09. The Wheel
10. Julie
11. Signals And Signs
12. Out Of Gas

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