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Oceansize are a band who take a lot of time and effort to get into and
are also a band you will never forget due to the technicality and length
of their songs even if you are not overly impressed with them. The bands
third album 'Frames' takes a lot more effort to get into compared to their
two previous albums. 'Frames' is only 8 tracks long but runs for an outstanding
67 minutes giving the bands sound perfect time to progress.
The album opens up with 'Commemorative_____T-shirt' which features some
stunning music being played from their instruments and Mike Vennart's
vocals take nearly 4 minutes to come in and fade out pretty soon after
for some more long technical progressive instrumental work.
'Trial Of Fire' is one of the most accessible songs on the album and features
some beautiful vocals and quite technical instrumental work for the 8
minutes that the song runs for. 'Savant' is another interesting song that
has a really long introduction with minimal instrumental work going on
and really soothing vocals and once the vocals come in, this is how the
song is for the next 4minutes until the stunning orchestra style outro.
There are a few rocking moments on the album such as on 'Only Twin', the
song has a really long introduction of not much going on at all but everything
builds up with the guitars changing sound in time and the drums suddenly
coming in before exploding into quite a rocking climax.
The most stand out track on the album is 'Sleeping Dogs And Dead Lions'
due to the fact that the song has quite a lot going on from start to finish
and is the heaviest song on the album with quite shouty vocals in places
and stunning drum rolls.
You could listen to the whole of 'Frames' and think that the album is
one big progressive experimental song because that’s how challenging
it is to get into this album with so much going and only one song really
having any get up and go but you can’t knock Oceansize for being
adventurous and avoiding the mainstream by releasing an album that is
totally anti radio friendly.
3.5/5
Review by Trigger |
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Gambler (guitar, keyboards)
Steve Durose (guitar/backing vocals)
Mark Heron (drums, drums, cymbals)
Steven Hodson (bass, keyboards)
Mike Vennart (guitar, lead vocals)
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1. Commemorative T Shirt
2. Unfamiliar
3. Trail Of Fire
4. Savant
5. Only Twin
6. An Old Friend Of The Christies
7. Sleeping Dogs And Dead Lions
8. Frame
9. Voorhees |
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- Top Cheese
- Brilliant
- Pretty damn good
- Ok I guess
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What Was That? |
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