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Message Subject Ozzy - Patient Number Nine - My Album Review
Poster Handle The_Meridian
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Ozzy's latest release, "Patient Number Nine" is a continuation of a collaboration with producer Andrew Watt and a slew of guest musicians. Watt also contributes instrumentation, notably rhythm guitar. Ozzy previously worked with him on recent album "Ordinary Man," a mixed-feelings album of hits, misses and mehs, but nevertheless an impressive offering for a musician of his age.

"PN9", on the other hand, goes beyond apologetics and lunges for the jugular in a way that Ozzy hasn't since the forementioned "Ozzmosis" of 1995. Not even "13" with the Sabbath crew is as aggressive as "PN9".

Ozzy's vocal range and passion are fully restored, no doubt through what must be studio trickery straight off a recovered UFO or ritualistic feeding off of the blood of fresh babies. There simply is no natural explanation and the usual cries of "Auto-Tune!" simply do not suffice. It's Magick of some sort, but it works. It sounds like Ozzy's voice except better than it has been in almost 30 years.

Jeff Beck, Tony Iommi, Eric Clapton and Zakk Wylde are among the various guest musicians who appear on various tracks, as well as the recently departed Taylor Hawkins. Jimmy Page was invited, but did not turn up. He should kick himself for not being a part of this project with these other luminaries.

Sonically, overall, this album sounds exactly like "Ordinary Man" and several of the tracks even smack a bit as rearranged versions of songs from that album. Fortunately, when it does, it's besting those songs most of the time.

Thematically, this collection of songs stays true to "Prince of Darkness" moniker but deepens the content with songs that you can imagine strongly resonate with the aging Ozzy.

The creative team is rock-solid and the production is organic and airy compared to most releases of the last 20 years. Music production has gotten very, very clever at emulating a natural feel. There are a lot of interesting time-signature changes and tones that sound goose-bumpingly vintage. We know it's still all on a laptop with pro-tools, timed out to meter *but* perhaps they've got a new tool to take it off-time and give it swing? IDK...I would love to talk to a top-tier engineer and find out what's going on here.
 
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