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SICKOAKES - Seawards
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CD // £5.99
INDIE / ROCK / ALTERNATIVE
Released: Mar 2006
Catalogue Number: TYPE010

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Harking from the vodka-drenched tundra of Sweden, Sickoakes are a fluid six-piece (sometimes there's four...) who make sprawling cascades of orchestral post-rock which accrues glowing adjectives like moths to a flame. Comprised of Mats and Simon on guitar, David on Bass, Jonas and Jacob on Saxophone and Erik on drums, Sickoakes have been leaking CD-R's for years now, with 'Seawards' their long-awaited debut LP on the splendid Type imprint. Massaging disparate elements into a deliciously cohesive whole, 'Seawards' manages to evoke the ocean and its belligerent mood-swings to perfection; opening with the tender 'Driftwood' and closing sixty-minutes later through the malignantly euphoric 'Leonine'. Whilst ostentatiously labelled post-rock, Sickoakes do not adhere to the clipped wing schematic that has so come to blight the genre; eschewing the quiet-loud-quiet-loud-quiet approach for a richly textured and profoundly moving journey that earns its accolades rather than attempting to Xerox those of others. Sharing a twilight disposition with label-mates Deaf Center, Crossed with the effervescent genius of Mogwai - 'Driftwood' ushers you in through delicate piano and an achingly poignant melody which brings to mind the less sun-blushed output of Ennio Morricone, before 'Taking the Stairs Instead of the Elevator' roams brusquely into view with an odd (yet compelling) combination of British Folk, chiming guitars, Spaghetti horns and staccato rhythms. The result? Genre-defying. Elsewhere, 'Oceans on Hold' reclaims a killer guitar part and lets it spiral skywards amongst breathlessly rendered instrumentation and AM samples, 'Missiles and Mammals' transports you to a starry-eyed retreat through lashings of snow capped strings, whilst the truly epic 'Wedding Rings & Bullets in the Same Golden Shrine (Part I & II)' cements Sickoakes position alongside Explosions in the Sky and Mogwai as purveyors of un-cut, grade-A aural necromancy. In other words; this is just about as good as it gets..another jewel from the flawless Type label.

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