Bodies Of Water: A Certain Feeling (Digi auf CD

One year after the self-release of the acclaimed EarsWill Pop & EyesWill Blink, Bodies of Water have created another full-length offering. A Certain Feeling, their first record for Secretly Canadian, was written, arranged and recorded in David & Meredith Metcalf 's house in the Northeast L. A. neighborhood of Highland Park. The strains that one can hear running through all of Bodies of Water's music are fully exhibited here; instantly familiar melodies, rich harmonic color, expansively deft arrangements, and compositions that ebb, flow, and double back on themselves in cathartic synchronicity. Though no two songs sound entirely similar, it's a cohesive that comes out feeling like the anthemic prog / gospel / psychedelic / kraut-tribal movie score that EnnioMorricone and Phil Spector never got around to collaborating on. The choral hugeness that typified Ears Will Pop still rears its emphatic head, only here it is more often held in reser...