Oceansize

I wetn with some friends to see Coheed & Cambria play at the Shepherd’s Bush Empire the other week and this gave me a chance to finally see Oceansize play live. I’d not been drawn into their stuff previously as I’m not really a psychedelia/space rock kind of person (if that’s what you can call them) but live they really carried it off, and their new material is dare I say more “proggy”.

Tim Smith of Cardiacs produced some of their early material, and its great to see that Oceansize themselves are fans of Cardiacs… I did notice the lead vocalist doing Cardiacs “tiptoe bouncing” (when will Silvery be recorded?!) at one point.

Next day I immediately bought the album “Everyone Into Position” on iTunes and frankly it is brilliant. Really refreshing sound and with such truly epic songs. Ornament / The Last Wrongs has to qualify as an epic pop prog classic, if there were such an award. Annoyingly all online sources of it I can find, to attempt to back up this claim, are only 30s long and of just the intro which is very quite as it is merely the foothills of the mountainous 9 minute epic.