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- Summary: The third full-length release for the New York-based project Sound of Ceres was inspired by Les Baxter's exotica songs, Maurice Ravel's Daphnis et Chloé ballet, and Gustav Holst's The Planets.
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- Record Label: Joyful Noise
- Genre(s): Pop/Rock, Alternative/Indie Rock, Indie Electronic, Indie Pop, Dream Pop, Shoegaze
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UncutJun 28, 2022Emerald Sea isn’t your average third album. An otherworldly mix of Gustav Holst’s drama, The Flaming Lips’ psychedelia and Broadcast’s retro-futurist exotica, with hints of the band’s earlier Beach House dream-pop, it breaks a fourth wall of sound with “The Glare”’s saturated reverberations, while “Deeper Surround” offers a chimerical carousel ride of synths. [Aug 2022, p.33]
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Jun 28, 2022From the puckish refrains of the lovely "Sunday Venus" to the intricate "Arm of Golden Flame," the two characters intertwine amid fascinating compositions that are intellectually challenging but ultimately rewarding.
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Jun 28, 2022Emerald Sea is audibly crafted with tremendous skill and love, but its uniformity keeps it from soaring, no matter how many deities fly through the upper reaches.
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Jun 28, 2022Despite the high quality of the arrangements, the orchestration and the recording as a whole, it is a bit too much at once. A case of less would have been more.