The Ocean Holocene
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DDDeftoneDDD
May 18th 2023


22317 Comments

Album Rating: 4.0

A The Ocean curve ball? I'm ooon

MarsKid
Emeritus
May 18th 2023


21030 Comments

Album Rating: 4.4

One curveball coming at u DDDbro

Ectier
May 18th 2023


2607 Comments

Album Rating: 4.0

Eagerly waiting for bandcamp to unlock the album so i can dive into it

Purpl3Spartan
May 18th 2023


8593 Comments

Album Rating: 3.0

nice rev might check

Dewinged
Staff Reviewer
May 18th 2023


32034 Comments

Album Rating: 4.3

I have a really good feeling about this one.



Call it a hunch.

Dewinged
Staff Reviewer
May 19th 2023


32034 Comments

Album Rating: 4.3

The opener already blowing my fucking mind.

ShapeOfJizzToCum
May 19th 2023


866 Comments

Album Rating: 4.0

Man I honestly thought this was going to need to be more of a grower for me and at this point given a couple months this is going to rank among my top albums of theirs. I may like this one more than the last two which I REALLY did not see coming.

DDDeftoneDDD
May 19th 2023


22317 Comments

Album Rating: 4.0

Geeez! Metal af! m/

DDDeftoneDDD
May 19th 2023


22317 Comments

Album Rating: 4.0

Subboreal yeah!

ShapeOfJizzToCum
May 19th 2023


866 Comments

Album Rating: 4.0

The album is back heavy but i think in a way that the whole album benefits from, like the opening tracks aren't any worse for it, it's just the album seems to keep picking up momentum for its full length and that entire run from Atlantic to the end is just insane imo and having fewer screams than usual makes those few moments hit really extra hard.



Also I just think Loic has really been improving overall with each album and appreciate him a lot on this record.

DDDeftoneDDD
May 19th 2023


22317 Comments

Album Rating: 4.0

Vocals are sooo good.



WHO SINGS ON UNCONFORMITIES?

Dewinged
Staff Reviewer
May 19th 2023


32034 Comments

Album Rating: 4.3

Karin Park.



Unconformities is just... wow.

DDDeftoneDDD
May 19th 2023


22317 Comments

Album Rating: 4.0

A definite highlight on Holocene is the appearance of the unmistakable, mesmerizing voice of Norwegian singer Karin Park on «Unconformities»



Got it



Also cool lol



“We're all huge fans of Mezzanine, which is still one of the best-produced albums to date, it has aged incredibly well”, says synth wizzard Voigtmann. “And for me it is an immensely heavy album too, a different kind of heaviness, but one that somehow connects logically with what we've been doing with The Ocean over the course of the past 2 albums.”

Dewinged
Staff Reviewer
May 19th 2023


32034 Comments

Album Rating: 4.3

And agree with Shape there, the second half is insane. Definitely a bottom loaded album.

DDDeftoneDDD
May 19th 2023


22317 Comments

Album Rating: 4.0

Totally, reaching the last track, this thing just flew by! Awesome listen! Easy 4.5 for me

Dewinged
Staff Reviewer
May 19th 2023


32034 Comments

Album Rating: 4.3

we're on the same pace DD ;)



Second half of the closer now, which is really good too, brilliant album, easy top 10 of the year for now.

JohnnyoftheWell
Staff Reviewer
May 19th 2023


60417 Comments

Album Rating: 2.5

okay um is synth rock the ticket for the ocean to finally release something above a 3.5 hold my beer



opener's songwriting is very periphery + tolerable vocalist (and this ain't a compliment hmm)

MarsKid
Emeritus
May 19th 2023


21030 Comments

Album Rating: 4.4

When I first heard "Unconformities," my jaw dropped lol, incredible tune



This album definitely took me time before it sank in, but it's interesting to see others grasp it immediately. Perhaps I sold it short.

JohnnyoftheWell
Staff Reviewer
May 19th 2023


60417 Comments

Album Rating: 2.5

i take back the periphery comment - this seems like their way of trying to do they same kind understated guitar-as-auxiliary, expansive-aqueous-palette ebb and flow shit as O'Brother did on their latest (which mainly worked bc sexy vox and sexy tones, whereas this has the usual (hurr) watertight sterility deal as every other ocean i've heard uh)

Dewinged
Staff Reviewer
May 19th 2023


32034 Comments

Album Rating: 4.3

If you never liked The Ocean this one won't change that I believe Johnny.



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