Windmills by the Ocean
Windmills by the Ocean
Robotic Empire (2006)
Windmills by the Ocean is a collection of songs that have been dusted off after they sat on the shelf for... well, for far too long. Five friends came together in August of 2003 and laid down five tracks of ethereal, drone, post-rock/metal goodness. While the members went on with their main projects, and new ones too, these songs sat and sat and sat on the shelf. That is until the good people at Robotic Empire decided to release them. When you look at the names of the players of Windmills by the Ocean, it's really not surprising to hear the mostly-instrumental (there are some effect-laden vocals layered throughout the songs) concoction that comprises this recording. They have played in the likes of Isis, Red Sparowes, Anodyne, and 27. That's an impressive pedigree. All that is missing from the best-of-Hydra Head (Boston style) is a member of Cave In or Converge (or the criminally underrated Jesuit). Over the course of these five nameless tracks, all over the six-minute mark, Windmills by the Ocean churn the primordial sea of massive, slow moving, and circulating riffs together with varying speeds of drumming, and a lot, I mean a lot, of guitar effects. … Read more
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