A Place To Rest
Baboon Fish, 2025
9/10
The French prog-rockers Olgoj flesh out a very unique version of rock with these songs recorded between 2022 and 2024, where the 9 tracks touch on art, indie and post-rock ideas.
“Galaporella” opens with an intricate spirit, where Matthieu Noblet’s skilled drums suit the prog-rock nods that are melodic and lush, and “Second Skin” follows with Samuel Anger’s dreamy and dense guitars amid both thick and harmonic gestures.
Landing in the middle, “A Place To Rest” alternates between radiant moments and firm bursts of alt-rock flavor, while “Échelle” emits intimacy with much grace in its soft ambience.
Moving close to the end, “Everything’s Calm So Far” offers a mesmerizing and soulful mood that benefits from Ronan Bedo’s meticulous bass, and “Silencio” gets quite frisky, where grooves and dynamic interaction between the members gets a bit louder near the end and flirts with math-rock.
A really interesting and memorable body of work, Olgoj touch on so many facets of rock, where each track somehow seems better than the one before it, and will likely yield repeated listens.
Travels well with: Discipline- Breadcrumbs; Fearful Symmetry- I’ve Started, So I’ll Finish…