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Artist
Over the Ocean
12+ albums
post-rockshoegazesadcoreindieindie rock
about
Norfolk, VA, USA Jesse Hill - guitar and vocals Nate Crawford - guitar Josh Whittle - drums Ben Crumrine - bass guitar Josh Bogart - guitar Over the Ocean was founded by a group of four musical aesthetes from Virginia Beach, Virginia in 2008. With a commitment to crafting some of the most honest and meaningful music possible, they were not content to simply play music that would fit as background noise on an iPhone somewhere. From the very beginning, Over the Ocean set out to create music that stops listeners in their tracks. In very short order, the band started rehearsing what would become their debut full-length, “Paper House.” Writing and rehearsing for their debut cemented Over the Ocean as a live band. Paper House was tracked live at Applehead Studios in Woodstock, NY with very minimal overdubs. “I think that experience and way of doing things will always stay with us. We did 90% of the tracking on the new album live too, and I think it really helped us feel the songs,” says Jesse Hill, Over the Ocean’s ringleader on the recording process for Paper House. Through a series of unexpected life events the band went from a four piece to a five piece, and having overcome some big hurdles since Paper House, the guys were ready to tackle a new record – a batch of darker arrangements that would become the follow up to Paper House – a new LP entitled, Be Given to the Soil, that would be engineered, produced and mixed by Jeremy S.H. Griffith (Underoath, Gasoline Heart) at Sing
