''Ocean Roar'' is the sixth studio album by

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, released on August 29, 2012. It is the second of two albums released by Mount Eerie in 2012.

Recording and release

''Ocean Roar'' is the second of two albums released by Mount Eerie in 2012.

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described ''Ocean Roar'' as a "counterpoint to the soft synth walls and landscape pondering of '' Clear Moon'', presenting the opposite of that album’s clear glints of awareness: a total wall of blue-grey oceanic fog, a half remembered dream of a trip through dense old growth hills to the gnarly winter ocean, in the middle of the night, decades ago."Elvrum, Phil

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Clear Moon / Ocean Roar (Condensed Versions)

On October 17, 2012, Phil released a 7-inch single entitled " Clear Moon / Ocean Roar (Condensed Versions)". Side B consists of all the songs on Ocean Roar played at once

Reception

''Ocean Roar'' received mostly positive reviews. At Metacritic, which assigns a normalized rating out of 100 to reviews from mainstream critics, the album received an average score of 85 based on 11 reviews, indicating "universal acclaim". Aggregator

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gave ''Ocean Roar'' 7.8 out of 10, based on their assessment of the critical consensus. The album was listed 38th on

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's list of the top 50 albums of 2012.

Track listing

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. 04 September 2012. Retrieved 24 November 2012.

Legacy

American musician Andy Stack cites opening track "Pale Lights" as a influence, describing it as genius.

References

External links

Official website
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