Art Rock Show – Phanerozoic II: Mesozoic – Cenozoic (Week 48)
Het Duitse prog & post-metal collectief The Ocean heeft een nieuw plaat uit. En wat voor een. Met Phanerozoic II: Mesozoic – Cenozoic laat de groep z’n meest progressieve, experimentele kant zien.
Brian Masso van Sonic Perspectives: “Phanerozoic II: Mesozoic | Cenozoic is a mesmerizing, innovative, experimental, and groundbreaking record that ranks as the best album recorded by The Ocean.
Despite continuing the paleontology theme portrayed on “Phanerozoic II: Mesozoic | Cenozoic”is a mesmerizing, innovative, experimental, and groundbreaking record that ranks as the best album recorded byThe Ocean.
Despite continuing the paleontology theme portrayed on“Phanerozoic I: Palaeozic”, the second part of the Phanerozoic series’ musical direction differs considerably.A bolder, more experimental, darker, and more progressive approach was reserved for the second part.The broad-ranging composition allows a surprising amount of musical passages that develop the record’s excitement, freshness, and unexpected elements.
The mentioned approach and a more collaborative way of making music byThe Oceancreate a daring musical ride that explores exciting subjects.They are brilliantly developed through the parallelisms between some philosophical concepts such as existentialism,Nietzsche’s eternal recurrence and stoicism, and the extinction events during the Phanerozoic eon. (…)
The richness of“Phanerozoic II: Mesozoic | Cenozoic”is endless.Every listen comes with a new discovery, whether it is uncovering some musical layers unheard at first time or understanding in a better way the concept resulted from the similarities between the philosophical perspectives considered and the different geological periods.Overall,The Ocean’snew album is the testimony of a band pushing the envelope of the genre, while restlessly evolving in terms of innovation, cleverness, and dazzling musicianship.”
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