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Review: Pale Seas – Bodies/My Own Mind [Double A Single]

Communion // 'The melody pulls the listener into the ether'

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Last Edited by: Chris MUG5 Maguire August 1st, 2012.
Southampton's Pale Seas are back with their second single offering, or should I say offerings? Because we don't get your average output of 'Lead single, sub-standard B-side' here, the dream pop quartet are touting a double A side of 'Bodies' and 'My Own Mind'. The two tracks are more than worthy of A side status too, no question.

Let's kick off with 'Bodies', a sparkling gem of folk tinged pop. Leading in with Jacob Scott's acoustic strums, it's followed closely by Zealah Izabella Anstey's trademark pounding on the drum skins and Matthew Bishop's meaty basstones with the string picking and riffs from Graham Poole's guitar adding a weighty atmosphere to proceedings. Scott's voice glides over the dream pop clouds with a timbre that could thaw ice cubes at a thousand paces - “I can feel us drowning in the southern air...”

The melody pulls the listener into the ether, floating high above the everyday mundane, surfing on invisible sky high wave breakers and drifting towards oceans of hazy daydreams.

LISTEN // Pale Seas - 'Bodies/My Own Mind'



'My Own Mind' eases in with 'oooohs' and Poole's jangly guitar and again we have the superb drumming from Anstey, this girl knows her trade, every beat hitting the strings of the heart. This track is Dream Pop 101, the layering of sounds taking on near shoegaze properties (and after seeing these guys live, their dream pop takes an epic 'gaze turn on stage, you must see them!), Scott's voice sounding quintessentially British, his harmonies never faltering or failing to hit the spot on a lulling scale, yet again all culminating in the mind wandering onto higher astral planes of melody or diving into the melodious seas of the pale type.

WATCH // Pale Seas - 'My Own Mind'


To sum up, simply gorgeous.

'Bodies/My Own Mind' by Pale Seas is released through Communion 17th September.

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