A Storm Of Light: And We Wept The Black Ocean Within on CD
And We Wept The Black Ocean Within
Conventional CD, playable with all CD players and computer drives, but also with most SACD or multiplayers.
- Label:
- Neurot
- Item number:
- 2240895
- UPC/EAN:
- 0658457105924
- Release date:
- 22.8.2008
No, tragedy hasn't struck since the album was recorded. The debut release from Brooklyn, NY trio A Storm Of Light is anything but posthumous. However, within its murky, suffocating depths there lies little certainty about the origin and veracity of the words bellowed by guitarist Josh Graham (also Neurosis visual director, Blood And Time, Battle Of Mice and formerly of Red Sparowes) as mouthpiece of the album's protagonist. The unreliable narrator as a literary device -- familiar to the works of authors like Edgar Allan Poe and William Faulkner -- places readers within an intractable mind in a severely compromised state. Interestingly, this notion rarely explored in rock music is the essence of And We Wept The Black Ocean Within. The first-person lyrics are unclear exactly who might be delivering them as they appear to move throughvarying stages of grief (i. e. denial, anger, bargaining, depression, acceptance) throughout the course of the album. It could be something inanimate, could be something animal, or it could be the words of someone long deceased. Graham isn't forthcoming with details, however. The closest he comes is a vague hint to the c...
Disk 1 von 1 (CD)
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1 Adrift
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2 Vast & Endless
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3 Black Ocean
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4 Thunderhead
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5 Undertow
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6 Mass
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7 Leaden Tide
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8 Breach
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9 Descent
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10 Iron Heart
