With his second album "Get On The Otherside", Bobby Oroza gets to the heart of his longing for the profound, the profound. Musically, he has further developed the formula we know from his first record. Lyrically, however, the songs are boldly rooted in the more complicated, pervasive inner intricacies of life, like introspection and coming to terms with the vastness of human experience. When the corona virus brought the world to a halt, Bobby - father and husband - had to do something. Unable to play tours or be in the studio, Bobby found himself working construction sites to support his family. "I was super grateful for the work-a lot of my colleagues didn't have an option like that," Bobby admits. More than a few personal difficulties forced him to admit and process some really uncomfortable truths. And what came out of it? Well, for one thing, this new record, Get On The Otherside, which pretty much describes what Bobby went through: He had to give up his ego, his old ways of thinking and his tried and tested approaches in order to be able to take a new perspective and come to new realisations. As Bobby says, "I had to do some real self-searching, come to terms with what was wrong, and how much of it I was responsible for." How does that translate to the new album? Moments of clarity about where true value lies in life in I Got Love, encouraging numbers like the title track The Otherside and declarations of self-renewal in My Place, My Time. Even in seemingly simpler love songs like Sweet Agony and Loving Body, an extra layer has been added. If you've never had the pleasure of experiencing one of Bobby's live shows, you may have no idea that he's a true free spirit on the guitar. In Passing Things, he lets us in on a bit of that with a solo that has the same restraint and expansiveness as his lyrics. As you'd expect, his songwriting is still characterised by that raw, direct edge. But there has clearly been an evolution. There are new takes on familiar territory. The result is an album that fully showcases Bobby's new found humility and is a message of encouragement.