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OceansizeEveryone Into Position
This is how to make an album that will last. You offer layer upon layer of sound, you twist, you turn, you give people something they have not heard before. This is not a collection of people playing but a complex entity of ideas and invention and soul. Epic rock for the intellectual. Beauty, construction and depth. Oceansize will encompass you.
OK, this will not be for everyone. Oceansize are not easy to get along with. They make music that is art. You have to give it some work. It will not come to you like a docile pop-puppy, you have to give, and go to it. But Oceansize understand that hooks are important, and are careful never to disappear up their own backsides. The great single ‘Heaven Alive’ shows this off to great affect, in that it was catchy enough to disturb the top 40, but has more invention and originality in its intro alone than most bands manage in their entire back catalogue. Opener, ‘The Charm Offensive’ provides some wah wah based funk to add to the already versatile palate used to create 2003’s Effloresce. ‘Meredith’ sounds like Mogwai, while ‘A Homage To A Shame’ is more early At The Drive In. A host of sounds to come back to. An album to keep discovering for years to come, and one which I think perhaps, if I were to re-write this list in 10 years, will possess the longevity to top it. I do think though, that this might be too prog for some people, so don’t rush out and buy before you try. There are inevitable similarities to Amplifier here (not least that they are both from Manchester), though Oceansize are actually the more progressive of the two. In any event, an undeniable masterpiece of making art from meat on metal on wood.
OK, this will not be for everyone. Oceansize are not easy to get along with. They make music that is art. You have to give it some work. It will not come to you like a docile pop-puppy, you have to give, and go to it. But Oceansize understand that hooks are important, and are careful never to disappear up their own backsides. The great single ‘Heaven Alive’ shows this off to great affect, in that it was catchy enough to disturb the top 40, but has more invention and originality in its intro alone than most bands manage in their entire back catalogue. Opener, ‘The Charm Offensive’ provides some wah wah based funk to add to the already versatile palate used to create 2003’s Effloresce. ‘Meredith’ sounds like Mogwai, while ‘A Homage To A Shame’ is more early At The Drive In. A host of sounds to come back to. An album to keep discovering for years to come, and one which I think perhaps, if I were to re-write this list in 10 years, will possess the longevity to top it. I do think though, that this might be too prog for some people, so don’t rush out and buy before you try. There are inevitable similarities to Amplifier here (not least that they are both from Manchester), though Oceansize are actually the more progressive of the two. In any event, an undeniable masterpiece of making art from meat on metal on wood.
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