Blog: The Panic Manual

Fortresses is the third full length release for Canadian wordsmith Octoberman (Mark Morrissette). The press release for Octoberman states that this is Morrissette's most thematically unified work which examines a variety of relationships. I would agree with this statement as the relationship theme became fairly evident upon my first listen. Several relationships are explored on Fortresses such as a musicians relationship with his fans (opening track The Backlash ), different lovers ( Dancing With Your Ghosts ) and obviously what most male musicians write about, relationships with girls, girls, girls. [...]

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