New Life Into Post-Rock With The Calm Blue Sea

Austin is the self proclaimed ‘live music capital of the world’. Not such a bold statement when its home to the SXSW festival. But it also has some great bands to go with it such as The Black Angels, The American Analog Set, …And You Will know Us by the Trail Of The Dead, Butthole Surfers, Alejandro Escovedo, Explosions In The Sky, The Gourds, and Okkervil River to name a few. Oh and of course Stevie Ray Vaughn, Willie Nelson and the 13th Floor Elevators.
Well now there’s another band from Austin Texas who’s self-titles debut LP is one of the finest things that I’ve heard this year.
Over the last few years there’s been a tendency for Post-Rock to imitate the Explosions In The Sky sound and the genre has become stale in many parts. Sure The Calm Blue Sea have quite parts that sound like Explosions In The Sky but they also reach epic peaks of early Mogwai with fine lush piano parts that Sigur Ros do so well. But mixed in together they sound their own and it's an album well worth getting.

Get The Calm Blue Sea: We Happy Few mp3 Here