An Ocean Without Water

General 12" | Jul 2011

Reviews

Adam Pearson
Reviewed 2011-07-25
On the stoner side of instrumental (post?) rock. Does the loud/soft dynamic thing a bit, but not to the extreme that other bands do. Rock drums with hints of tribal tom beats and angular riffing, but with a western shootout ambiance. Songs are complex and go through multiple sections with heavy guitars, harmonica, and ambient twiddling. Souvenir’s Young America is a trio out of Virginia. For fans of Russian Circles, Ativin, and Red Sparowes. No FCCs. 33RPM

Side A:
1. Psychy organ pads and multi-part stoner/metal influenced instrumental piece. (6:22)
*2. Dreamy strings and Godspeed-esque twang, pretty stuff, breaks down and builds back up with toms. (8:10)
3. Lots of open space and delayed frontier guitar sweep with ominous distorted layers underneath. (5:31)

Side B:
1. Spaced, fuzzy epic driving trippy feel, then some blaring organs. (7:33)
2. Desolate harmonica with strummed, spacious guitar, picks up to rhythmic urgent march. (6:25)
*3. Slow ambient psychedelia and reversed electronic experimentation and effects to start, layers of soft trippy static and drone seep in, arrives at a little desert/dream rock stride. (6:18)

Recent airplay

Blood Alone Does Not A Father Make
Mars Ascendent
Mars Ascendent
razor's edgeNov 09, 2011
Coragyps Atratus (Ego Te Absolvo)
razor's edgeNov 03, 2011
Blood Alone Does Not A Father Make
razor's edgeNov 02, 2011
Mars Ascendent
OverkillOct 22, 2011

Charting

2011-07-24 — 2011-09-11
Week EndingAirplays
Sep 11 1
Sep 4 1
Aug 14 1
Jul 31 1

Track listing

1. Mars Ascendent
2. Blood Alone Does Not A Father Make
3. Dark Was The Night Cold Was The Ground
4. Side B:
5. The Sheltering Sky
6. Invocation In The Caldera
7. Coragyps Atratus (Ego Te Absolvo)