This record stands as a testament to the versatility of musicians with Ochs showing that he can make good and interesting music over multiple genres and stylings.

(MXDWN Magazine about "Future Fables") Music to touch your soul quite relies on one essential: changing your perspective, opening up a different view on the world than the one you might have cultivated in your life so far.

And the best stories are always the ones that no one told yet. Conny Ochs envisions the signs, concealed and hidden to others, he is able to read the world much more detailed and in higher density.

The results of his observation he channels into narratives driven by fervour and vulnerability.

The new album "Doom Folk" walks new tracks but sometimes they are just running parallel to the old paths.

Conny is touring since years as some kind of rock'n'roll vagabond throughout the land and countries, traveling from one show to another, playing the urban prairie as well as rural downtowns.

Witnesses of his journey are the albums "Raw Love Songs" (2011), "Black Happy" (2013) and "Future Fables" (2016), illustrating the evolution from a Blues/Folk-infused troubadour to the iconic singer/songwriter he is nowadays.

"Doom Folk" closes a bracket around its three predecessors as well as the two records Conny Ochs recorded with Scott "Wino" Weinrich ("Heavy Kingdom", 2012 and "Freedom Conspiracy", 2015), which were driven by a stripped-down, almost naked attitude in musicality.

While the inspiration is still clearly apparent on "Doom Folk", something feels new, fresh and diverse.

Let's make no mistake, the record is still a Conny Ochs album, coming from dark and melancholic dreams, wrapped in songwriting full of urgency and bittersweetness.

But it doesn't end there. Conny opens his sounds and skills up to a wider instrumentation: bass, drums, percussion and organs find their way into the sound, adding tonal urgency, distortion and volume to "Doom Folk".

And so, the album fans out the authenticity of Conny Ochs in more diversity than ever before.

Melancholy and insanity, attrition and hope - nestled in a loud/quiet dichotomy, carried forward by clean, and pure tones until the same erupting in a distortion and dissonance created by driving an old fashioned amplifier tube into saturation.