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"'Self Preserved While The Bodies Float Up' could well be the group's most immediate record to date."
September 6, 2010
Album review: Oceansize - 'Self Preserved While The Bodies Float Up' (Superball)
Still gloriously unafraid to rock
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8 / 10
Manchester rock lords Oceansize have elevated the five-mates-in-a-room-making-a-racket thing into something approaching a bloody-minded artform on their fourth album. ‘Self Preserved…’’s loose, jam-based riff colossi stand in stark relief to everyone else’s doo-wop apery or sterile poptronica. And as ‘Silent/Transparent’ bristles with barely contained energy for eight and a half wonderful minutes and ‘Superimposer’ and ‘Build Us A Rocket Then…’ creep, crawl and then explode into gutsy rock thunder, the only appropriate environment to listen to this is standing on a mountain, arms gloriously aloft.
Rob Parker
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