Stream: The Ocean Blue, ‘Sad Night, Where Is Morning?’
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Next-gen indie-pop fans, meet the old school: The Ocean Blue’s atmospheric music came on the radar more than two decades ago, their early albums drawing comparisons to the Smiths, Cocteau Twins, New Order and Aztec Camera. Now the Pennsylvania-bred quartet of David Schelzel, Bobby Mittan, Oed Ronne and Peter Anderson has released its first-full-length in more than 10 years, “Ultramarine.” It boasts the layered melodies, tasteful production and hopeful melancholy of their early work for Sire Records, inhabiting the same world as some of today’s indie darlings. Here’s the common ground for twee-leaning forty- and twentysomethings.
||| Stream: “Sad Night, Where Is Morning?”
||| Live: The Ocean Blue play the Satellite on Saturday (sold out) with the Orange Peels and Willie Wisely, and on Sunday with Incan Abraham and Soft Swells.
||| Also: After the jump, check out the video for “Blow My Mind”:
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