SUMMER OF OZZ.

It’s been a cruel, cruel summer. While in the thick of Camp TNUC festivities, panty-raids and the annual lower boat regatta, the devastating news broke of Ozzy Osbourne’s passing, just weeks after the huge Black Sabbath congregation in Birmingham, England. I think we can all agree that Prince Ozz’s death is a massive blow to everything we love about music.

However, all summer long it’s been a nonstop celebration of Black Sabbath and Ozzy and it shows no signs of slowing down, thankfully.

While most of the honoring has been blasting classics like “Electric Funeral”, “Symptom of the Universe”, “Johnny Blade” and “Bark at the Moon” over a roaring backyard fire, it’s also been therapeutic to ease back and expand my senses with some of the quieter, stranger moments from the Sabbath library.

Balearic Sabbath is a mixtape made in 2017 featuring some of the band’s soft-doom standouts. Give it a spin as you’re alone on the beach at 5am after a long evening. The song “Laguna Sunrise” starts playing and your swirling thoughts come to a focused, linear, relaxed state of mind.