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Releases
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01. Commemorative T-Shirt
02. Unfamiliar
03. Trail of Fire
04. Savant
05. Only Twin
06. An Old Friend of the Christies
07. Sleeping Dogs and Dead Lions
08. The Frame
09. Voorhees
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| When Oceansize christened themselves back at the start of the third millennium, they didn’t just pick a name, they set themselves a challenge. Their mission statement was to make the biggest music possible, adventures on the high seas of future-rock giganticism that could never, ever stop. It also meant that every album they made would have to be even bigger, heavier, than the last one.
Indeed, ‘Frames’ glows with the bonecrushing experimentation, mixing, erm, ultimate warrior wrestling music with beautiful classical flourishes. Oceansize always weaved magic out of unfamiliar time signatures. This time, they have so many of them going on at the same time that Vennart says the album is, at times, “the sound of a band ignoring itself.” Evidenced on the lurching ‘Savant’ and the ravenous ‘Only Twin’ and the climactic ‘The Frame’, every single player goes on their own journey, making up a deeply intricate whole.
‘Frames’, make no mistake, is a snapshot of a band revived, renewed and at the very peak of their powers. Which just leaves Oceansize with one more challenge: how on Earth can they possibly hope to get bigger than this?
For fans of: The Mars Volta, Muse, Coldplay, Pink Floyd, Cog and Coheed and Cambria |
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