Ocean Roar

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Ocean Roar
Mount Eerie - Ocean's Roar - small album art.jpg
Studio album by
Mount Eerie
ReleasedAugust 29, 2012
RecordedJanuary 4, 2011, to February 21, 2012, at the Unknown in Anacortes, Washington [1]
Genre Experimental rock, indie rock, noise, dark ambient
Length38:43
Label P.W. Elverum & Sun, Ltd.
(ELV 026/043)
Producer Phil Elverum
Mount Eerie chronology
Clear Moon
(2012)		Ocean Roar
(2012)		 Live in Bloomington, September 30, 2011
(2013)
Mount Eerie studio album chronology
Clear Moon
(2012)		Ocean Roar
(2012)		 Sauna
(2015)

Ocean Roar is the sixth studio album by Mount Eerie, released on August 29, 2012. It is the second of two albums released by Mount Eerie in 2012. [2]

Contents

Recording and release

Ocean Roar is the second of two albums released by Mount Eerie in 2012. [2] Phil Elvrum described Ocean Roar as a "counterpoint to the soft synth walls and landscape pondering of Clear Moon , presenting the opposite of that album’s clear glints of awareness: a total wall of blue-grey oceanic fog, a half remembered dream of a trip through dense old growth hills to the gnarly winter ocean, in the middle of the night, decades ago." [3]

Clear Moon / Ocean Roar (Condensed Versions)

On October 17, 2012, Phil released a 7-inch single entitled "Clear Moon / Ocean Roar (Condensed Versions)". Side B consists of all the songs on Ocean Roar played at once [4]

Reception

Professional ratings
Aggregate scores
SourceRating
AnyDecentMusic?7.8/10 [5]
Metacritic 85/100 [6]
Review scores
SourceRating
Beats Per Minute 86% [7]
Consequence of Sound Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svg [8]
Drowned in Sound 10/10 [9]
The Line of Best Fit 8.5/10 [10]
Mojo Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svg [11]
Pitchfork 8.1/10 [12]
PopMatters 8/10 [13]
Sputnikmusic 4/5 [14]
Tiny Mix Tapes Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svg [15]
Under the Radar 7.5/10 [16]

Ocean Roar received mostly positive reviews. At Metacritic, which assigns a normalized rating out of 100 to reviews from mainstream critics, the album received an average score of 85 based on 11 reviews, indicating "universal acclaim". [6] Aggregator AnyDecentMusic? gave Ocean Roar 7.8 out of 10, based on their assessment of the critical consensus. [5]

The album was listed 38th on Stereogum's list of the top 50 albums of 2012. [17]

Track listing

No.TitleLength
1."Pale Lights"9:59
2."Ocean Roar"2:47
3."Ancient Times"1:11
4."Instrumental"5:32
5."Waves"4:57
6."Engel Der Luft (Popol Vuh)"3:15
7."I Walked Home Beholding"4:05
8."Instrumental"6:58
Total length:38:43

"Engel Der Luft" is a cover of a Popol Vuh song from their soundtrack Fitzcarraldo . [18]

Legacy

American musician Andy Stack cites opening track "Pale Lights" as an influence, describing it as genius. [19]

References

  1. ↑ Mount Eerie. Bandcamp. Retrieved 24 November 2012.
  2. 1 2 Pelly, Jenn (February 22, 2012). "Mount Eerie to Release Two New Albums This Year". Pitchfork . Retrieved November 24, 2012.
  3. ↑ Elvrum, Phil. Archived 2019-11-17 at the Wayback Machine . P. W. Elverum & Sun. 04 September 2012. Retrieved 24 November 2012.
  4. ↑ Coplan, Chris (November 13, 2012). "Mount Eerie's new 7" lets you listen to Clear Moon and Ocean Roar at the same time". Consequence of Sound . Retrieved January 25, 2020.
  5. 1 2 "Mount Eerie". AnyDecentMusic?. Retrieved January 12, 2020.
  6. 1 2 "Ocean Roar Reviews Ratings, Credits, and More". Metacritic . Retrieved December 27, 2012.
  7. ↑ Halverson, Andrew (September 7, 2012). "Album Review: Mount Eerie – Ocean Roar". Beats Per Minute . Retrieved June 1, 2025.
  8. ↑ Litowitz, Drew (September 7, 2012). "Album Review: Mount Eerie – Ocean Roar". Consequence of Sound . Archived from the original on September 9, 2012. Retrieved June 1, 2025.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: bot: original URL status unknown (link)
  9. ↑ Moores, J.R. (December 7, 2012). "Mount Eerie - Clear Moon/Ocean Roar". Drowned in Sound . Archived from the original on June 1, 2025. Retrieved June 1, 2025.
  10. ↑ Tapley, Chris (September 12, 2012). "Mount Eerie - "Ocean Roar"". The Line of Best Fit . Retrieved June 1, 2025.
  11. ↑ Ocean Roar exists deep in extreme nature, a journey's end of madness, memory and Euphoria. [Nov 2012, p.95]
  12. ↑ Greene, Jayson (November 24, 2012). "Mount Eerie: Ocean Roar". Pitchfork . Retrieved September 6, 2012.
  13. ↑ Houle, Zachary (September 5, 2012). "Mount Eerie: Ocean Roar". PopMatters . Retrieved June 1, 2025.
  14. ↑ EMERITUS, Xenophanes (September 6, 2012). "Mount Eerie - Ocean Roar". Sputnikmusic . Retrieved June 1, 2025.
  15. ↑ Sullivan, Ben. "Mount Eerie - Ocean Roar" . Retrieved January 3, 2013.
  16. ↑ Pace, J. (September 27, 2012). "Mount Eerie - Ocean Roar". Under the Radar . Retrieved June 1, 2025.
  17. ↑ "Stereogum's Top 50 Albums of 2012". December 5, 2012.
  18. ↑ Elverum, Phil. Mount Eerie. Bandcamp. 04 September 2012. Retrieved 24 November 2012.
  19. ↑ Clash, Staff (August 22, 2019). "Influences: Joyero". Clash . Retrieved July 3, 2020.
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