Ode to Ochrasy

Mando Diao's third album, Ode To Ochrasy, is a crafty collision of shiny 60s pop and ill-tempered garage rock. The themes of Ode To Ochrasy were born out of the band's experiences on the road, while supporting their critically acclaimed second album, Hurricane Bar. The band was most taken by "ochrasy" a term which they made up for those wee hours of the night, after the show, post-afterparty, before the start of the next day. It is a place and a state of mind somewhere between dream and reality. All of these experiences inspired the songs on Ode To Ochrasy, where lyrics reference the characters they met on the road, and the bizarre encounters the band had in those early hours of the morning.