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Effloresce (album)

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Released
  
29 September 2003

Artist
  
Oceansize

Producer
  
Chris Sheldon

Length
  
75:34

Release date
  
29 September 2003

Label
  
Beggars Banquet

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Recorded
  
Jacob's Studio, Farnham, Surrey, February–March 2003

Effloresce (2003)
  
Music for Nurses (2004)

Genres
  
Progressive rock, Post-rock, Space rock, Experimental rock, New Prog

Similar
  
Oceansize albums, Progressive rock albums

Oceansize i am the morning


Effloresce is the debut album by British progressive rock band Oceansize. It was released on 29 September 2003. The record garnered considerable praise from critics.

Contents

Oceansize i am the morning


Track listing

All songs written by Oceansize.

  1. "I Am the Morning" – 4:18
  2. "Catalyst" – 6:40
  3. "One Day All This Could Be Yours" – 4:19
  4. "Massive Bereavement (Featuring Can)" – 9:59
  5. "Rinsed" – 3:58
  6. "You Wish" – 6:00
  7. "Remember Where You Are" – 5:22
  8. "Amputee" – 5:32
  9. "Unravel" – 2:50
  10. "Women Who Love Men Who Love Drugs" – 8:30
  11. "Saturday Morning Breakfast Show" – 9:04
  12. "Long Forgotten" – 8:57

Trivia

  • The piano line playing on Track 9, "Unravel," is an excerpt of the second piece, Le Gibet, from Maurice Ravel's Gaspard de la Nuit.
  • The title of "Women Who Love Men Who Love Drugs" was coined by bassist Jon Ellis, who saw the headline of the same name in Cosmopolitan Magazine.

    • Personnel

  • Mike Vennart – guitar, vocals
  • Steve Durose – guitar, backing vocals
  • Richard 'Gambler' Ingram – guitar
  • Jon Ellis – bass, keyboards
  • Mark Heron – drums

    • Additional personnel

  • Chris Sheldon – production (with Oceansize), mixing
  • Adrian Newton – assistant engineer
  • Louis Read – assistant engineer
  • Dario Dendi – assistant engineer
  • Jack Clark – assistant engineer
  • Martin & Kimberly McCarrick – cello, violin, viola on "Massive Bereavement" and "Long Forgotten"
  • Claire Lemmon – backing vocals on "Massive Bereavement" and "Saturday Morning Breakfast Show"

    • Songs

    1I Am the Morning4:18
    2Catalyst6:40
    3One Day All This Could Be Yours4:20

    References

    Effloresce (album) Wikipedia
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