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The Sea

Friday Flackbash:
The James Caird Steering East By Northeast

January 15, 2010

Special dedication to my man Herman Melville.
Justin Sullivan – Ocean Rising from Navigating By The Stars
first posted November 27, 2007

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The Sea Has Twenty, Yeah, Twenty Thousand Leagues And There’s Only One Of You

July 23, 2009

If I’ve said it once, I’ve said it a thousand times: if there’s one kind of music I like, it’s music about a boy who gets abducted by a time traveler while swimming across the ocean.
I get all hopeful for the future (and stuff) when I come across a young band not afraid to attack [...]

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All The Dead Sailors Slowly Slipping To Sleep

March 3, 2009

Longing for summer, living through winter. This song suits both feelings.
I’m perpetually amazed by songs. Just when you think you’ve heard all the melodies, meters, and metaphors, a song like this pops out of a guy sounding both brand-new and like its existed all along.
This is the  effortless sound of the careful application of craft.
Boh!
The [...]

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Barrels Of Rum And A Fresh Cabin Boy

May 23, 2008

The Pirate Band has inflicted traditional and original songs of plunder, mucus, and scones on San Francisco for nigh on several hundred years — long before pirates were the new spacemen and the old zombies.
They’ve recently come ashore from a trip through “Poseidon’s guts,” so Bay Area mateys who don’t give a fig for their [...]

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I Can See Them Now — The Snow-Capped Peaks Of Land

November 27, 2007

Navigating By The Stars, the first solo album by the New Model Army vocalist, is remarkable. I don’t know what else really to say — it’s an amazing achievement. If you are drawn at all to seafaring themes of adventure, serenity, and woe, you go grabbit now.
Justin Sullivan – Ocean Rising from [...]

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