The Sea of Cortez // The Shores

The Sea of Cortez claim to have a unique musical vision being that one member is a biologist, one a photographer, and the third a DJ. But I suppose I can't totally scoff at that since I was readily accepted the plausibility that Shearwater's obsession with ornithology totally shaped their sound.

Come to think of it, I bet the two would get along quite nicely, hanging out on a remote island somewhere, huddling under a bivouac discussing the ways the perspicacious effects of nature one's senses, or the feelings of isolation one often experience therein can be replicated by the desperation of their respective band's sounds or the organic structures of their songs/albums.

Take for example "The Shores," from The Sea of Cortez's latest LP. The sound eases in like a subtle increase in wind speed, followed by the sounds of thunder in the distance, and before one realizes it mist gives way to soft cool trickles of rain droplets, and then yet again into a full on torrent of sing-along goodness before the listener has had time to contemplate what's happened. By that time the storm breaks leaving behind only gentle harmonies, wet clothes, and above all that fresh clean ocean scent.

MP3: The Sea of Cortez - The Shores

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