Blue Ocean / Fertile State
Album: Fertile State   Collection:General
Artist:Blue Ocean   Added:Nov 2023
Label:Slumberland Records  

A-File Activity
Add Date: 2024-08-24 Pull Date: 2024-10-26
Week Ending: Oct 27 Oct 20 Oct 6 Sep 29 Sep 22 Sep 8
Airplays: 1 2 1 1 1 1

Recent Airplay
1. Nov 21, 2024: Comes to Mind
Ode
4. Oct 26, 2024: Landau Roof
Ode
2. Nov 09, 2024: Music Casserole
Elude
5. Oct 17, 2024: Comes to Mind
Take a Care
3. Nov 07, 2024: Comes to Mind
Syncnine
6. Oct 05, 2024: Music Casserole
Radiant Edge

Album Review
Red West
Reviewed 2024-08-22
Oakland band, guitar rock with vocals mostly male, some F backing. Could easily be a late-80's/early 90's album if I didn't know better.
1. shoegaze rock getting my head nodding. This song is a good intro, if the rest of the album is this good we're in for a treat.
2. slightly discordant guitars clashing with the vocals. Still an active beat keeping it moving forward. Like a part of the trip where it could go either way.
3. interlude with alien synth sounds and then no-beat vocal wanderings.
4. Less feedback, louder vocals. My Bloody Valentine hints, though I'm not liking it as much as the first couple tracks.
5. guitar instrumental like ocean waves, that kind of beachy feel. Female vocals start in second half, I can't tell if they have words.
6. ringing guitar, m+f vocals, happy song.
7. gentle noise fade-in with backwards-sounds, psychedelic guitar. Slower rock song in the middle, quiet last minute. Enjoyable journey.
8. drum machine goes to shoegaze - pop. Happy. Should have come out of the UK.
9. brief chaos
10.faster tempo noise-rock, lots of feedback, sunny sound
11.brief guitar & effect instrumental
12.shoegaze album closer, simple theme repeats while more elements layer on, uplifting
No FCCs detected (not that I can really hear what they're singing)

Track Listing
1. Ode   7. Radiant Edge
2. Elated Prose   8. Present
3. Neutron Mob   9. Sulfur Jacket
4. Fertile State   10. Syncnine
5. Ion Drift   11. Deorbit
6. Take a Care   12. Elude