Teeth of The Sea — Ophaned By the Ocean

Teeth of the Sea summon up a mighty,swirling and atmospheric wall of sound that mixers together kraut-rock dirges, Morricone like soundtrack pumps ‘n’ throbs, trumpet atmospherics, modern Earth like country rock/ doom folds, shadowy post-rock scaping and along with some slight grimy punked guitar chugs and 80’s indie bass wonderings.

With Ophaned By the Ocean the band manage to build  seven  consistent and building tracks that thankfully manage to side-step most of the overworked clichés  of the post-rock genre. Keeping the tracks atmospheric and cinematically moving yet full of sudden sonic surprises and interesting turns; I think the use of trumpet really helps the tracks and marks out their sound well- but there’s also a nice use of guitar scraping, and atmospheric shading/ detail, percussive prowess and heady bass wonderings too. With the tracks having a keen sense of melodic grounding and atmospheric power- but always staying slightly dangerous and unpredictable in their make-up.

Certainly one of the most rewarding and consistent debut albums to appear from an atmospheric & building guitar based band in sometime. Teeth of The Sea are certainly worthy of your time if you have any interest in cinematic and building guitar music.