This is Doug Burr’s follow up to his acclaimed On Promenade album. O Ye Devastator is hands down simply a brilliant album. True to form for Burr, this is poetic melancholy at its finest. Burr’s voice is haunting, hitting the notes where the need to be hit and straining with emotion that drips through every verse and chorus. Doug has a storyteller’s heart and is able to write in a way that I think most can relate to. This disc opens with the standout track “A Black Wave Is Comin”, and continues to build musically and sonically like stepping stones to the last breath that we exhale before the heartache and hazardous lessons of life fall around us, threatening to fall upon us. This is a record that you must have, full of reflection and the often longed for promise of hope that exists just beyond our grasp, relational missteps and upsets, and love that is present and intoxicating. Doug Burr has crafted a masterpiece that exceeds the boundaries of On Promenade.
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