Taste Test: Tommy Ocean leads the ‘Revolution’
The folk singer-songwriter draws in the line in the sand with a political song.
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A fire hisses and cracks from his acoustic guitar, and Tommy Ocean‘s jagged vocals hypnotize you into a realm growing grey and cold. “Revolution,” sliced with plainspoken and tragic poetry, is Ocean’s plucky rallying cry, and he doesn’t mince his words as he unsheathes a glistening, well-sharpened sword. “Stealing people’s thoughts to manipulate / Elections and countries with lies and hate,” he sings, painting the truth that’s soured as milk right under our noses. “But the evil you’re cashing soon will return / Back to its sender, in fire to burn.” He stages a post-apocalyptic rebellion that is teetering on otherworldly destruction that’ll soon tear through times, places, worlds and its many peoples.
“Revolution” follows “The Beggar,” released earlier this year, and ferments his songcraft as a spellbinding mischief maker.
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