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SEA SICK
S/T
(Self-Released)
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Downright
impressive. This seven song self-titled self-released
recording is what great music is made of. It’s
adventurous and bold. It’s colorful, and big. It’s
filled with creativity and it’s got both; introspective
and outgoing melodies. In other words, is shiny and
sunny, but at the same time dwells somewhere with
delicious morbidity. It has an open mind and the songs
have enough derangement to ‘em to consider Sea Sick a
dangerous trio. Have the straitjackets handy, because if
the world is a fair place this Brooklyn trio is about to
get some recognition. Let’s just hope that doesn’t push
them to normality Yeah Yeah Yeahs’ style.
A few things;
Sea Sick write gorgeous songs. Outside of the melodies and into
the execution much of the credit goes to vocalist/guitarist
Jasmine Golestaneh whose guitar skills have enough post punk
angularity to slice Mark E Smith’s face from a mile away, but
also strums in subdued fashion (“Octopus”) and strikes just the
right Eastern flavored notes to make Sea Sick the most exotic
affair this side of the falafel. “XX” is gorgeous; a giant rock
track planted around metallic clanky guitars. It’s a spiked
punker that sounds cultured in virtue of its eroticism and
well-informed worldly melodies. Golestaneh is half
Persian/half Latvian, hence the rhythmic influences.
Brilliant work
too of drummer Sam Levin and keyboardist Geoffrey Lee. Their
warm, at times nuanced at others freewheeling, and laid back
playing in the PJ Harvey-esque “Come for the Fall” should help
comfort all those left jonesing for more music than that
contained in White Chalk. But that’s a soft track,
since I am a fan of hard music, I am more comfortable with Sea
Sick at their loudest, which means that I love the drastic
dynamics of “Radio”, it means that I enjoy the paced growth and
psyche freak out of “Radiant Heat” and it means that I vote for
“XX” as single of the year. Even if it is never released as a
single.
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