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Self Preserved While the Bodies Float Up

Oceansize

Self Preserved While the Bodies Float Up

Fourth album of post-rock and prog from the Manchester five-piece

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8.0

Label
EMI
UK Release date
06/09/2010
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  1. 10.0 |   God Is In The TV

    This is purely the sound of a band continuing to explore their sound, and this record sees them move into exciting new musical territories in an absorbing and affecting way
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  2. 9.0 |   The Digital Fix

    Oceansize have succeeded in bettering themselves in every way with this record, resulting in easily the most consistent and consistently great album they have ever made
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  3. 8.5 |   The Line Of Best Fit

    A consistent and engaging listen
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  4. 8.0 |   Drowned In Sound

    Through its twists and turns, every track on the album, even those of distinctly opposing noise levels, links together, providing that rare treat, the all-encompassing, whole album experience
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  5. 8.0 |   NME

    ‘Self Preserved…’’s loose, jam-based riff colossi stand in stark relief to everyone else’s doo-wop apery or sterile poptronica
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  6. 8.0 |   FasterLouder

    All in all, Self Preserved… is an interesting album, both complex and sonically abusive at times before becoming intimate, soft and tear-jerking
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  7. 8.0 |   Sputnik Music (staff)

    Brings a sense of continuity to their discography that had never existed previously
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  8. 8.0 |   BBC

    To be experienced properly, Self Preserved... needs to be heard in full, from beginning to end, missing nothing in between
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  9. 7.0 |   All Music

    Combines alternative pop/rock (including shoegazer music) with everything from Brit-pop to progressive rock, space rock, and art rock
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