Home and Minor
EP by
Oceansize
Released26 October 2009
RecordedSummer 2009 (completed 12 August)
GenreNew prog, post-rock, indie rock, experimental rock
LabelSuperball Music
ProducerOceansize
Oceansize chronology
Frames
(2007)		 Home and Minor
(2009)		 Self Preserved While the Bodies Float Up
(2010)
Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
Rock Sound8/10[1]
Shred News10/10[2]

Home & Minor is an EP by Manchester-based alternative rock band Oceansize, released on 26 October 2009 on Superball Music. The release is limited to 3000 copies.[3] Regarding the EP, vocalist and guitarist Mike Vennart states, "we thought we’d try and make a mini-album of more reserved songs that have something in common with each other. It's our acoustic-like record, only there are no acoustic instruments and it’s not an album!"[4]

Background and information

According to the band, the EP is[5]

a collection of our more 'settled' numbers. More reserved, with not a distortion pedal in sight, this lovely EP is a realisation of a plan that's been kicking around our collective brains since before we were signed in 2002. Where in the past we've crowbarred-in every single dynamic, idea and style we could think of into a record, we thought it best this time to present a more thematic and cohesive collection, so's not to disrupt the more fainted-hearted listener from their blub-induced slumber. Still, it covers plenty of ground, and features a fair few Oceansize firsts such as trumpets, pedal-steel guitar as well as a bit of pumping techno and some additional vocals from Kate Ray. It is also the first Oceansize record to be made in our own as-yet-unnamed studio in Manchester.

In an interview with Rock Sound, Vennart elaborated on the stylistic approach of the record, describing the track "Legal Teens" as "a weird, sci-fi, cocktail tune."[4]

Track listing

Music by Oceansize. Lyrics by Mike Vennart.

  1. "Legal Teens" - 4:28
  2. "Getting Where Water Cannot" - 5:24
  3. "Monodrones" - 2:34
  4. "Home & Minor" - 8:10
  5. "Didnaeland" - 3:22
  6. "The Strand" - 8:04

Personnel

The following people contributed to Home & Minor:[6]

References

  1. ↑ Rock Sound review
  2. ↑ Shred News review
  3. ↑ "Twitter / Oceansize: Just found out that the ne". Twitter.com. 28 October 2009. Retrieved 22 February 2012.
  4. 1 2 "Oceansize | News | Rock Sound". Rocksound.tv. Retrieved 22 February 2012.
  5. ↑ Lindsay, Andrew. "Oceansize announce 'Home and Minor' EP". stereokill.net. Archived from the original on 22 August 2009. Retrieved 22 February 2012.
  6. ↑ Home & Miner liner notes.
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