Artist: THE OCEAN
Album: PELAGIAL [VOCAL VERSION] VINYL (2LP 10”)

Release date: 2013
Media type: LP

The concept of the album is made evident in its title, Pelagial. Listeners will be further submersed as they journey with the band, beginning at the surface of the ocean and plunging through all five pelagic depth zones: epipelagic, mesopelagic, bathyalpelagic, abyssopelagic, and hadopelagic.

In synch with diminishing light and increasing pressure as one dives or sinks deeper into the ocean, the album begins rather light and progressively gets heavier and slows as the band reaches the unfathomable depths of the hadopelagic zone, characterized by complete darkness and a thousandfold increased pressure as compared to surface level.

Pelagial is one continuous piece of music. The tracks, or episodes, are connected by interludes of underwater sounds and samples taken from old submarine movies, which give the album a claustrophobic "Das Boot"-kind of atmosphere.

"There are track marks, and there are actual songs built into this larger structure, but the whole album is a journey rather than a number of loose tracks...some riffs appear in the first 2 minutes of the album and then reappear 30 minutes late", comments Staps.

Side A:
Epipelagic
Mesopelagic: The Uncanny
Bathyalpelagic I: Impasses
Bathyalpelagic II: The Wish In Dreams

Side B:
Bathyalpelagic III:: Disequillibrated
Abyssopelagic I: Boundless Vasts
Abyssopelagic II: Signals of Anxiety

Side C:
Hadopelagic I: Omen of the Deep
Hadopelagic II: Let Them Believe

Side D:
Demersal: Cognitive Dissonance
Benthic: The Origin Of Our Wishes