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Artist: Unsparing Sea
Album: In The Crystal Canyon EP
Label: Self Released
Playtime: 14:57 min
Genre: Rock
URL: http://www.unsparingsea.com/
Rip date: 2009-06-19
Street date: 2009-04-20
Size: 23.27 MB
Type: Normal
Quality: 206 kbps / 4410kHz / Joint Stereo
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Unsparing Sea make plaintive, classically adorned indie rock and folk music
with layers of lush instrumentation including cello, vibraphone, accordion,
banjo and trumpet and sing songs about wolves and weddings, kings and queens,
crowns, teeth, bones, rings and other places where the spirit resides.
Formed in 2007 by Nashville native J.R. Bennett and cellist Tara Klein the
band self-released itÆs debut LP, æA Cloud in the CathedralÆ in 2008 to the
surprise of many in the local Cleveland music scene. Klein, a classically
trained cellist who has performed with artist ranging from Kanye West to Foo
Fighters and who regularly performs in the Akron Symphony Orchestra, provided
the perfect confection of eerie swells and experimental droning to compliment
BennettÆs unique songwriting. The hand-packaged CD soon started to circulate
and began to receive positive reviews from national magazines like Skyscraper
and popular websites & music blogs and sparked invitations to play at
festivals like, North by Northeast in Toronto, while local shows were
regularly filling up. The band was called one of ô10 bands to Watchö by Free
Times magazine and the album was named a finalist for an 8th Annual
Independent Music Award.
The ôIn the Crystal Canyon EPö, is the 2009 follow-up to Unsparing SeaÆs
debut. Recorded in the winter of 2008 at Mammoth Cave studios in Akron, Ohio
by Mr. Tim Gerak, guitar player for the highly influential Ohio band æ6 Parts
7Æ, it represents the first batch of 14 songs from the æIn the Diamond
CavernsÆ sessions. Of the 4 songs contained on the EP, 2 are from the
forthcoming LP æIn the Diamond CavernsÆ to be released in late summer 2009,
and 2 tracks are B-Side selections from the æCavernsÆ sessions. The new work
represents the natural progression of a band that is determined to never rest
in one place for too long. The current line-up featuring bassist Mike Marks,
drummer Ryan Kelly and multi-instrumentalist Sarah Leitten on saw, accordion
and glockenspiel will be on tour throughout summer 2009. Unsparing Sea made
some waves in 2008, but as one early reviewer has noted, the new songs
ôrepresent the work of a band poised to start surprising more than just the
local Clevelanders.ö
- Track List ---------------------------------------------------------------- -
01. Wolves At A Wedding ( 3:32)
02. Diamond Caverns ( 4:25)
03. Dear Playwright ( 4:18)
04. All I Want ( 2:42)
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