{"id":11956,"date":"2014-07-14T17:17:26","date_gmt":"2014-07-14T22:17:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bostonsurvivalguide.net\/wordpress\/?p=11956"},"modified":"2014-07-16T17:17:41","modified_gmt":"2014-07-16T22:17:41","slug":"sea-wolfs-song-spells-no-1-cedarsmoke","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bostonsurvivalguide.net\/wordpress\/2014\/07\/sea-wolfs-song-spells-no-1-cedarsmoke\/","title":{"rendered":"Sea Wolf’s Song Spells, No. 1: Cedarsmoke"},"content":{"rendered":"

A wondrous and magical gift for their fans<\/em><\/p>\n

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Sea Wolf's Alex Brown Church - photo by Mia Kirby<\/p><\/div>\n

Just released from Los Angeles’ own Sea Wolf<\/a><\/strong> is the most eloquent and breathlessly beautiful of thank yous. Song Spells, No. 1: Cedarsmoke<\/a><\/strong> is a softly spoken, delicately woven, intimate and deeply personal masterpiece. They experimented with a faster, experimental approach to recording which has resulted in a simply gorgeous waking dream that feels like you’re sitting in a friend’s living room with the band gathered round playing for everyone. I’m tempted to say that every album<\/em> from this point forth should be recorded in this way. This is rich acoustic and subtle electronic music elegantly intertwined but simply captured, with Alex Brown Church’s warm guitar tones and vocals front and center, accentuated perfectly by the music. Strings, percussion, acoustic guitar and voice all blend organically, interwoven in the magic of what feels like and probably is a live full band recording. That is not to say it’s simplistic, anything but, though the layering of instruments is very cleanly presented with each melody distinctly clear and shining brightly.<\/p>\n