“So, here we find ourselves again,
and one might think it such a pity to be standing on the razor’s edge.
O’, how Occam would be ashamed.”
Or so the dreams appear to say.
They tell of numb and wretched men who’ve strayed far from the path,
they tell of nameless, faceless men whose every detail shrouds
itself in myth and with poeticism, with insight and with tragic glee.
O’, what does this speak of me if I look on so curious and unappeased?
Would such a thing be read and understood so easily?
If it was to be, then surely it would be?
This surely is a dichotomy so prevalent and irrevocably elegant,
so I’ve come to see.
Then, why does it haunt me so?
What agency is mine to bring to a union with the pre-ordained?
What have the fates to gain from a destitute and witless being,
long discarded by the way?
So is this a treatise or is it a game?
Is this pleasure or is it pain?
Or is there something more elusive?
Perhaps this could be destiny?
But as long as I draw breath I’ll not let it make a fool of me,
Lest I wander to the gallows and hang until I’m dead.
I’ve seen the mountain in my dreams, and I shall seek it ’til the end.
So beneath the sight of God
shall I forever more retreat into the pines and find my place in the all.
In the everything, might I just overcome?
But what of you, my dear?
O’, what of you, my love?
O’, how I’d hate to see us part.
But I must deceive you again.
I’m sorry but the voice that calls me rings inside my head.
It pains me so, the visions torment amidst my fears and sins.
But nothing wagered, nothing earned.
And for this, a rose I leave beside your head.
Our crown of thorns.
supported by 47 fans who also own “The Exile Part I - The Razor's Edge”
The Ocean est maître du Temps et de l'Histoire : le collectif avait annoncé comme une prophétie la sortie de Phanerozoic II: Mesozoic | Cenozoic pour 2020 et rien, pas même le cataclysme viral, ne l'aura empêché de le sortir en 2020.
Mais The Ocean est aussi maître du post-metal : cet album nous fait traverser avec virtuosité le règne des dinosaures, leur extinction (avec tant d'émotions !), le chaos puis l'apparition de ces étranges créatures qui pensaient contrôler le soleil...
Magistral ! Jordan Vauvert
supported by 46 fans who also own “The Exile Part I - The Razor's Edge”
First WTF was google music actually throwing something good into my feed.
Second WTF was everything every goddamn member of this band does. This and the previous album have been on repeat for weeks. All other music tastes like diet water. Help. Gruso
The Belgian band explore heavy psych, tribal rhythms, free-jazz freakouts, meditative drone and the vast, shadowy spaces in between. Bandcamp Album of the Day Jun 22, 2020