Description
Underwater Over There is the ninth album overall by the American instrumental post rock/dream pop band Unwed Sailor, self-released on Current Taste in 2024. Written, performed, recorded, and produced by Unwed Sailor. All songs mixed by Chris Colbert (of Breakfast with Amy fame), Matthew Putman, and Johnathon Ford.
Tulsa, Oklahoma’s Unwed Sailor is Johnathon Ford, Matthew Putman, and David Swatzell.
Every time Unwed Sailor releases a new album, I find myself wondering where they’re going. Johnathon Ford and his various collaborators have been so consistent over the years, ever since 1998’s Firecracker EP, that I wonder if they have anything left to say with their brand of instrumental post-rock.
And then I listen to a song like «Final Feather» from this year’s Underwater Over There, and I realize what a silly question that is. Anchored, as always, by a fluid Ford bassline, the song features dreamy synths and chiming guitar melodies that sound like they could summon the specter of Head on the Door-era Robert Smith at any moment.
As with the best Unwed Sailor songs, there’s nothing pretentious here, none of the existential sturm und drang that’s so often associated with the post-rock genre. Rather, it’s just good, honest songwriting and arrangements that never get dated or go out of style.
Underwater Over There is currently available for purchase on Bandcamp in digital, vinyl, and CD formats. [Jason Morehead, Opus, May 2024]
> Apple Music (https://music.apple.com/us/album/underwater-over-there/1728282582)
CD tracklist:
01. Dusty – 4:39
02. Blue Tangier – 5:21
03. Final Feather – 4:13
04. Junko – 7:05
05. Peculiar Way – 3:50
06. Antoinette – 3:41
07. Skylight – 6:18
08. Underwater Over There – 6:17
09. Bend The Air – 4:04
10. V&V – 2:25
Note: Released on both CD and 12-inch vinyl LP (pressed on Blue Oceania vinyl). Available at Bandcamp: https://unwedsailor.bandcamp.com/album/underwater-over-there
Underwater Over There, pressed on Blue Oceania vinyl.
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