Member Since: 25/04/2007
Band Members:
Ross Hooley, David Sanders, Jason Sanderson, Jamie Silver and Matthew Anstess.Contacting Cocean
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Influences: Beautiful melodies
Sounds Like:
"four gorgeous tracks on this debut EP"
"vocal harmonies and post-rocky instrumentation making this sound like a less sickly meeting of Straylight Run and Explosions In The Sky."
7/10 - Rocksound
"Pictures Fade, boasts a confident, polished sound. With soaring guitar riffs that rise and fall creating wonderful dynamic textures."
"The depth of the sound and the beautifully harmonised vocals make it difficult not to get lost in the music."
A Short Fanzine About Rocking
"‘Pictures Fade’ is an EP laced with harmony and heart and lingers in your head for days."
"it is at the core of Cocean’s music that epic drama resides and speaks"
AMPEDREVIEWS.NET
"As most of the big names of american indie-rock have dwindled away, Cocean serve a reminder of how great the genre can be."
"pretty riffs unfold hand-in-hand with vast climaxes"
8.2/10 - www.cowandfield.co.uk
"well rounded, often dreamy EP."
MMM ½ - www.manchestermusic.co.uk
"Through washing spacey ambience all over some possessing indie pop, this collection of songs is finally musically intelligent and coherent in a world full of crap"
"more passion than a Travel Lodge on Valentines Day."
4 out of 5 Stars - www.gigwise.com
"Cocean have found a perfect balance of superb soundscapes and an ambitious take on proto-pop. They are easily in the same ball park as their peers if not better."
www.thegrapezine.com
"Cocean are the best Deep Elm band never to have been on Deep Elm."
4 out of 5 Stars - www.punktastic.com
"Beautiful heartfelt pop songs, crammed full of harmonies, melodies and wonderful, wonderful tunes."
8 out of 10 - www.didshellsuitdie.co.uk
"a thing of beauty"
Sandman
Record Label: Seduction Records / Inhaler Records
Type of Label: Indie