At Sea

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1. At Sea lives and tries on the island of O'ahu. AT SEA Honolulu, Hawaii A.J. Feducia: Guitar Noah Viernes: Guitar Jack Tawil: Drums Yvonne Harada: Cello/Guitar/Vocals Jason Lowe: Bass Most audiences fortunate enough to have been witnesses to the musical crimes of At Sea might note the following: their disruptive ignorance of old musical rules, their lack of theatrical stage gimmicks aside from imitating head-down shoegaze guitarists of the early 90s, the confusions over misspellings of set lists, the presumptuous remarks they make about things they just don’t like, and so on and so forth. But sincere observers, partitioned off from disgruntled affiliates or self-appointed critics too quick to call At Sea another post-rock band, will note that the music begins in simplicity and subtleties. It comprises textures, layers, rational systems destroyed by the beauty of orchestral melodies, the drums that sound like the drum tracks from your favorite album (whatever that album happens to be), and the interplay between reverberating waves of sound and sentimental low end. There is no be-all-end-all of description of their music precisely because of the spontaneous arrangement of the process they follow. At one moment a combination of Mozart, Shostakovich, and Debussy springs to mind, at another Mono’s You Are There, The Cure’s Pornography, or Mogwai’s first three albums. There are feelings and not reasons, and the feelings fluctuate. In a sentence, their music is cinematic and b

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A New Machine

Something in the Way - Single

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Recorded from a live broadcast on KTUH.org

At Sea

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Something in the Way

Everything Looks Better in the Dark - Single

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Skins

Burning In His Skin - Single

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Three Sundays In April

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Stranded: A Compilation Of Brisbane Music 2007-2008 (Disc 3)

Listening To Some Other Songs About That

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Make Mix Tapes Not War

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