Osta Love: "About Time"
Osta Love are Tobias Geberth and Leon Ackermann who started the band after moving to Berlin in 2010. In 2013 they released their debut Good Morning Dystopia, an epic concept album about urban life in the 21th century. The band cut their teeth playing in clubs around Berlin and support shows for bands like Boy & Bear and The Pineapple Thief. Osta Love really found their voice on the stylistically diverse, yet tonally consistent second album The Isle of Dogs which has been called “a brilliant tightrope walk between catchiness and mystery” (Eclipsed) and ”for the last remaining connoisseurs, incredibly original” (Streetclip.tv).
Osta Love set out to compose memorable songs that stay surprising and interesting even after repeated listening, adding a certain musical complexity to the songs without over-complicating them - qualities they admire in bands like Pink Floyd, Steely Dan and The Beatles, probably the three acts that influenced them most.
After releasing the seven minute single Sunset Point, the duo spent the next two years in Berlin’s Paul Lincke Studio, recording their most refined record to date: “About Time” released in July 2020. An introspective musical journey, the first half of the album consists of five distinctive songs, starting out with the Beatlesesque piano ballad We Can Do It Again, then going from groovy to heavy before ending with the enigmatic Nights of Aphelion. Flipping the record to the other side, songwriting and arrangement become more meandering and experimental before the stripped down title track draws a poignant conclusion to the album. The underlying theme of About Time is the relentless passing of time and how we all deal with it; remembering, forgetting and regretting, melancholy and nostalgia.
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