Oceansize
"The White EP"

review by Ruth


Track Listing:
Amputee
Women Who Love Men Who Love Drugs
Saturday Morning Breakfast Show

(Available on CD and cassette)

Hot on the heels of last year's Amputee EP (reviewed in our last issue) comes this stop-gap in the form of this collection of previously laid down tracks and live recordings. As well as the gorgeous envelopping tidal wave of Amputee with it's apocalyptic overtones, and the sinister leviathan of Saturday Morning Breakfast Show, we get Women Who Love Men Who Love Drugs and it's subtle build-up from tense languidity, yet with disturbing perception shifting qualities and urban ghost echoic sampling. The recording of Size Of An Ocean is slightly dodgy, but still manages to capture the wild mood swings between screaming guitar and almost tropical guitar ripples. Surely it's only a matter of time before Oceansize start making inroads on the National music scene. Or it least it had better be, because at the rate they're growing soon there just won't be enough room in Manchester to hold them.

4/5

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