This really is Oceansize at their most sumptuous, essential best.
The world would be a better place if more bands followed the same path as Oceansize. I’m not talking about aping the majestic, autumnal post-rock pomp that the Manchester-based quintet has conquered over the past dozen years. I’m talking about building a career on foundations of substance and passion, developing a sound whilst retaining an identity. This is why Self Preserved While the Bodies Float Up is possibly their best album yet.
When they burst onto the scene with debut LP Effloresce in 2003, everyone was talking about their sound: it caressed the ears with luxurious bombast as much as it vanquished silences with razor-sharp shards of thunderous catharsis. Seven years later they are still the band music lovers adore, but the edges of their sonic spectrum have stretched. There is more restraint, but also there is more emphasis: if SPWTBFU is Oceansize’s heaviest album, it’s quite clearly also their most diverse.
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