O'Dessa Review – 'Gets tangled up in its own mythology'

O'Dessa Review – 'Gets tangled up in its own mythology'

To make an all-time-great album, you don’t play it safe. Ziggy Stardust, for instance, is a far-out space oddity. Modern masterworks like The ArchAndroid or Art Angels mash genres at will, inventing sounds you’ve never heard before. While Geremy Jasper’s original rock-opera movie musical O’Dessa fails in its attempt at greatness, it at least understands that grasping towards eternity means taking an almighty leap. You’d be hard-pressed to say yo…