Disneyland, Tales of Banyan, Bach, Prokofiev, Tchaikovsky, Dvorak, Mahler, Debussy, Perotin, John Williams, Howard Shore, Joe Hisaishi, Danny Elfman, Radiohead, Bjork, Colorforms, B.R.A.M., Grizzly Bear, Joanna Newsom, Them Hills, Muse, Faun Fables, Sleepytime Gorilla Museum, James Orr Complex, A-Ha, Cyndi Lauper, Behold... The Arctopus, Yoav Gal, Kurt Rosenwinkel, Mark Turner, Elliott Smith, The Beatles, Pocket for Corduroy, Peter Gabriel, The Police, Bon Jovi, Crash Test Dummies, Pantera, Michael Jackson, The Cornelius Group (Sensuous Synchronized Show), Metallica (through The Black Album but especially through And Justice For All...), Jim Svejda
Joe Frank, Jack Kornfield
The Museum of Jurassic Technology, the Rembrandt exhibit at The Getty, the garage installation in the modern art wing at LACMA, the Diane Arbus exhibit at the SF MOMA
LOTR, His Dark Materials, The Phantom Tollbooth, The Biography of Walt Disney, Stone Butch Blues, Steppenwolf, Jitterbug Perfume, The Perks of Being a Wallflower
Peter Jackson, LOTR, The Making of LOTR, Hayao Miyazaki, Spirited Away, Nausicaa of the Valley of the Wind, My Neighbor Totoro, Future Boy Conan, Castle in the Sky, Princess Mononoke, The City of Lost Children, The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari, Close Encounters of the Third Kind, David Lynch, House of Fools, Mary Poppins
Metroid, The Legend of Zelda, Super Mario World
Prospect park on a cool foggy day, Prospect park at dusk in late August full of fireflies, Central Park looking across the lake at the looming trees dipping into the water, Golden Gate Park where it is always autumn
Anything that takes you somewhere and makes you want to stay forever.
Sounds Like
Pirates of the Caribbean after the first drop when it is still dark, there is a ship cracked in half and the captain, a grinning pirate skeleton blowing in the wind, is steering the wreckage through dark rushing clouds, and the smell, the smell that can't be found anywhere other than the happiest place on Earth.
The music from a wonderful nightmare.
Somewhere between the Midieval, Baroque, and the Victorian but post Bjork and Radiohead.
Track Review: Hour of the Shipwreck “The Chandelier Suite”
An undeniable filmic quality, its soothing post-rock passages crashing heroically into jagged guitars, waves of discordant synths and - eat your heart out, James Horner. - a full freakin’ choir, deployed perfectly. But “cinematic” just doesn’t do “The Chandelier Suite” justice, because movie music rarely rocks this hard. If you wish Danny Elfman had larger balls, Hour of the Shipwreck is for you.
YTSE
One of the best 4AD albums not on the 4AD label… Hour of the Shipwreck pertain to their own formula of not only dark progressive rock, but also doom laden college/indie rock, in fact, the worlds of both collide here… musically organic, offering up a breath of fresh air in the world of sophisticated art-rock, not jumping on any bandwagon, for Hour of the Shipwreck are their own entity, being truly inventive with their own approach.
Cerebralmetalhead.com
Lengthy songs whose dynamics are sculpted like a film director shapes a scene -- we can almost hear the camera pan through the clouds… There's really no name for what the band's doing here… so meticulously assembled that it works as a musical set piece for lifelong fantasies.
Blogcritics
A masterpiece of epic proportions… genre-defying… 16th-century experimental-classical-Goth-art rock… an indescribably wonderful musical journey.
Prognaut
Ethereal-sounding vocals in league with Thom Yorke… If you enjoy dreamy orchestral based rock music, Hour Of The Shipwreck is a no-brainer and a must have album… I fell in love with this album.
http://www.musicemissions.com
Excellent musicianship, songwriting that sounds equally inspired by Danny Elfman or John Williams as it does Explosions in the Sky or even Radiohead in it's nature of epic despair and grand distraught… it has that universal appeal that many rock albums aim for but can never quite find. Seriously one of the best albums I've heard this year!
Subba-cultcha
Stirring soundscapes and soaring vocals form the best movie soundtrack never used onscreen… soaring vocals and layers of music forming a dreamy soundscape with enough depth and body to be almost tangible… vocals are obviously indebted to Jeff Buckley’s falsetto… EPIC really is the only way to describe this album!
The Tape Is Not Sticky
They play a mix of dreamy pirate rock and Danny Elfman inspired music… one of the greatest rock performances I have ever seen… If they don’t get famous off this album their is something wrong with the world.
Amplifier Magazine
A grand symphonic pop statement on their sweeping / cathartic seven-song cycle… quite capable of eliciting a wide array of emotions at the drop of a hat.
Mish Mash
Hour Of The Shipwreck is dark and misty… with a touch of Radiohead-meets-Pink Floyd… a full vocal choir moves the disc beyond a mere rock record into something special… the album is haunting and beautiful.
Instanalysis
From complicated arrangements to song setting to inspiration, they’re purposely not sticking to the straight and narrow… Shipwreck wrote for a choir, strings, and brass and merged them with the rock quintet, giving the album a production value above and beyond the aforementioned road.
Bill's Prog Blog
Not much like anything else I have in my collection, and that is one of the best things I can say about any band… emotional progressive rock at its most original. Vocals are theatrical, music and arrangements are dramatic and filled with twists and turns… tightly composed and performed tracks, all of which meld together to create an impressive listening experience.
SF Station
The quintessential soundtrack to any and every game of Dungeons & Dragons from this moment forward… Hour of the Shipwreck masterfully lay soundscapes that ride the edge of chaos, of crisis, and stability, while alternately affecting mood and feel… one of the most Yngwie Malmsteen-esque solos I have heard since, well, Yngwie Malmsteen.
MusicGlob
Very different/experimental/unique... the more you listen, the more you understand.
Evilsponge.com
Just go and buy the album. Please...just buy it, take it home, play it in a darkened room and lose yourself in the experience.
HOUR OF THE SHIPWRECK can be heard on these RADIO STATIONS across the US and Canada
WEGL Auburn AL
FM99.3 Sydney AU
CJSF Burnaby BC
CJLY Nelson BC
KHSU Arcata CA
KALX Berkeley CA
Titan Radio Fullerton CA
KHUM Humboldt CA
KSCR Los Angeles CA
KCSS Modesto-ish CA
KCR San Diego CA
KSJS San Jose CA
KUSP Santa Cruz CA
KDNK Carbondale CO
KBUT Crested Butte CO
KDUR Durango CO
KCSU Fort Collins CO
KAFM Grand Junction CO
WHUS Storrs CT
KWLC Decorah IA
WECI Richmond IA
WEFT Champaign IL
WMXM Lake Forest IL
WVUR Valparaiso IN
KSLU Hammond LA
WMWM Salem MA
WMPG Portland ME
WHFR Dearborn MI
KMNR Rolla MO
KDHX St. Louis MO
WSCA Portsmouth NH
KBVR Corvallis OR
KRVM Eugene OR
KEOL La Grande OR
WMUH Allentown PA
KSYM San Antonio TX
TRSW San Marcos TX
WWPV Colchester VT
KAOS Olympia WA
KWCW Walla Walla WA
WORT Madison WI
WSUP Platteville WI
WRFW River Falls WI
CJSW Calgary
Little Radio LA (internet)
"DJ Monkey …soul-stirring, excitingly edgy music…just disturbing (read ‘mind-f**king’) enough to demand attention. There is a whole spice rack of auditory flavors here, served up like fractured poetry on a collection of intensely listenable Hallmark cards from Hell." Bill Margold, Cinema Seen, L.A. X..Press
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