The Ocean - Will Put Out Tenth Full Length, First Details Disclosed
The Ocean are pleased to announce that the work on their next full length instalment is completed and therefore share first details. The band's tenth studio album is going to be entitled Holocene and will be set free on May 19th, 2023 through Pelagic Records.
Statement from The Ocean: "Despite a heavy year of touring, we found the time to complete our new album and after a long odyssey of getting it mixed & mastered (which we will tell you all about when the time comes), we couldn’t be more happy with it. Holocene adds a closing chapter to our palaeontology-inspired album series, and presents a gear shift towards electronic realms while exploring new depths of heaviness at the same time.
"Phanerozoic II ended with a track titled "Holocene", and that was pointing in the direction of things to come, both conceptually and musically. The track "Holocene" ends abruptly and yet connects seamlessly with the beginning of the new album, the synths of opener "Preboreal", which we released as the first single off the album 2 weeks ago. This is only the very beginning of a journey which once more will end in a very different place than where it began...
"Holocene is an appendix to the 2 Phanerozoic albums and Precambrian, or the final and concluding chapter, making it a quadrilogy if you want so. It’s tackling the Holocene epoch, which is the current and shortest chapter in earth’s history, but it is essentially an album about the angst, alienation, loss of reason and critical thinking, rise of conspiracy theories and deconstruction of values in the modern age.
"While creeping deeper into our own musical DNA, we have made an album that came out more intimate and captivating than previous ones. An album with which we challenged our writing routine, an album that we didn’t foresee coming, but one that we are immensely proud of. We can't wait to share it with you."
Statement from The Ocean: "Despite a heavy year of touring, we found the time to complete our new album and after a long odyssey of getting it mixed & mastered (which we will tell you all about when the time comes), we couldn’t be more happy with it. Holocene adds a closing chapter to our palaeontology-inspired album series, and presents a gear shift towards electronic realms while exploring new depths of heaviness at the same time.
"Phanerozoic II ended with a track titled "Holocene", and that was pointing in the direction of things to come, both conceptually and musically. The track "Holocene" ends abruptly and yet connects seamlessly with the beginning of the new album, the synths of opener "Preboreal", which we released as the first single off the album 2 weeks ago. This is only the very beginning of a journey which once more will end in a very different place than where it began...
"Holocene is an appendix to the 2 Phanerozoic albums and Precambrian, or the final and concluding chapter, making it a quadrilogy if you want so. It’s tackling the Holocene epoch, which is the current and shortest chapter in earth’s history, but it is essentially an album about the angst, alienation, loss of reason and critical thinking, rise of conspiracy theories and deconstruction of values in the modern age.
"While creeping deeper into our own musical DNA, we have made an album that came out more intimate and captivating than previous ones. An album with which we challenged our writing routine, an album that we didn’t foresee coming, but one that we are immensely proud of. We can't wait to share it with you."
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| Jon Irenicus Posts: 13  |
"...presents a gear shift towards electronic realms..." "...a track titled "Holocene", and that was pointing in the direction of things to come, both conceptually and musically..." "...An album with which we challenged our writing routine, an album that we didn’t foresee coming..." Sounds like a threat to me.  We'll see...
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| DonMoenning Posts: 99  |
Written by Jon Irenicus on 07.02.2023 at 16:41 Right? This is exactly what I didn't want to hear...
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| F3ynman Nocturnal Bro Contributor Posts: 3026  |
Quote: Wasn't that The Ocean's whole thing? Sounds like it's going to be a major change from here on.
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| musclassia Staff Posts: 7628  |
Written by F3ynman on 07.02.2023 at 17:40 Not quite - the albums Precambrian, and Phanerozoic: Palaeozoic and Phanerozoic: Mesozoic / Cenozoic were all titled after and thematically shaped around geological periods; Anthropocentric/Heliocentric focused on Fundamentalism/Creationism, Pelagial was inspired by oceanic zones, and Fluxion/Aeolian by... something, I imagine. This is part of the Precambrina/Phanerozoic series, so presumably whatever they do next will be unrelated, but to be honest, I feel like musically there's more tying Phanerozoic to Pelagial than Precambrian, so I don't think the lyrical shift alone will cause a drastic change. The electronic experimentation and continuation of the song Holocene that Jon Irenicus highlightd above, in contrast, represents a shift in songwriting focus that could extend beyond this new album I guess
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| F3ynman Nocturnal Bro Contributor Posts: 3026 |
Written by musclassia on 07.02.2023 at 18:35 Thanks for the info! I'm starting to make my way through their discography
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| Jaro Posts: 362  |
Written by Raddz on 07.02.2023 at 20:43 Mine too 
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| MarlKarx Posts: 63  |
The single was pretty dope, hope the rest of the album keeps the impossibly high expectations they've set. I'm cool with changes in sound, I just hope it retains what made them special.
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