From Bandcamp, "The purpose of GAVRAN is to give meaning to our past, present and future. It gives us a way to release our doubts, despair and anger and search for the light at the end of the countless tunnels in our minds. It is a journey we still endeavor and probably will until our end of days. In the band, we found a way to cope and unravel. It gave us a means to pursue true understanding. "The One Who Propels" continues the thematic duality present throughout their discography, but with a crucial shift in perspective. While earlier releases leaned toward hope as a guiding force, this record focuses on necessity, the inner energy required to initiate change."

The album has five songs, and "Okreni" is first. Clean guitars lead to heavy, weighted distortion, and the sound walks the line between hope and despair. The pacing is slow, lumbering, and some harsh vocals scream in pain. The longer it lingers, hope fades, and despair increases. In "Zora," you can hear a crushing weight swelling from the first few notes, and like a damned up river following a flood, it's about to break. The vocals vary from tortured screams that could break glass down to sad, solemn cleans, and the contrast is quite stark. The long length of the song coincides with the lingering feeling of dread. "Brod" is like a sad cry for help, by someone so weak, they can barely get their vocal chords to work. But when they are able to muster, the screams come out like a sonic boom.

"Pogon" carries a lot of anger with it instead of despair. From the opening rumbles of thick, meaty bass guitar to the aggressive guitar rhythms and vocal screams, it's evident now that hatred is running through his icy veins. The beastly, 16-minite opus titled "Plutaju" is the final song, and if you thought that the band was done exploring the bleak landscapes of doom, think again, because they just opened up a whole new plane. The tortured vocal screams reflect the level of pain he feels, which is off the charts, and even the clean vocals drip with ache. The picture they present in this song is both incredibly bleak and laded with emotion at the same time…it's like a winter scene in the forest where everything is still.

Overall, this was an excellent release. They pour so much feeling into the music. Sometimes, it's that pain you feel throughout your body that paralyzes you, while other times it's like a rock in the pit of your stomach that supplies a dull ache that is always there, no matter what you do. The muted production matches the feeling of grey you have on the album as well.