sometimesalwaysnever sean moore,
shannon rose steele, phil hammil, jeff johnson,
cory gilbert, matt kamm,
doug currier, miguel miranda,
phil mccombs, conrad winslow.
Influences
"the electric grandmother"
Sounds Like
SPLIT EP/CASSETTE
THE OCEAN FLOOR & TELE V CHEESEBURGER
01 All Along 02 Everything Doesn't Necessarily
Always End Up Turning Out
The Way You Want It 03 Ring Around The Moon 04 In A Black Bag 05 09 11 08 06 Silent Killer 07 Always Sometimes Never 08 Don't Feel So Good
01 Down the Drain 02 Bedbugs 03 A Simple Adventure 04 Pillows & Molasses 05 Inner Ear 06 Moat Memories 07 The Ocean’s First 08 Skinny Cloud 09 Scared of Falling Spears 10 Once I Was a Newlywed 11 The Lives They Behave 12 You Can Step on My Toes,
Please 13 Every Grass-Stained Day 14 Up Comes the Sun 15 You and Me and Smiles
"...sounds eerily like the jazz soundtracks to "The Muppet Show" pouring into a pop that's density rivals Henry Cow... The Ocean Floor are writing symphonies by quotation... They're not simply rehashing psych-rock or folk; they have created a pop that's contemporary from history's plateaus." - Andrew Jones, Skyscraper Magazine
"Enamored with a sense of wonder and fascination while never supposing that the novelty of any given situation can ever run out, the album is a loot bag of bejeweled sounds and Barrington’s lyrical versions of a suburban magic-realism. It contains anti-cynicism in concentrated form and whimsical weirdness for weirdness’ sake, all of it bypassing twee’s often overbearing preciousness and supposition that being calculatedly unconventional or childlike should be enough."
- cokemachineglow
"...It was a hearty challenge to uncover the mysteries behind his compositions, none of which spared the raw emotion and intensity of a good poet..." - onwardstate
"This Portland band left me slack-jawed with surprise and delight. It's the perfect record for tramping around in your favorite old-growth forest, watching the ferns grow. Lane Barrington's springy good humor and light-as-a-twinkie vocals make me smile every time I hear them. The acoustic jazz sound takes some very unusual turns--some tracks are perhaps less than accessible. But on songs like "A Simple Adventure", he's really on to something."
- April Baer, OPB Morning Edition
the ocean floor has broken my heart and mended it in a new fashion. it will ensnare you with it's honest beauty and never let you go. well, that is, until you need to take your grandma to go pick up her meds, but then you have to hurry right back afterward, okay?
thank you for playing last week and being one of the dancing fingers apart of the magic hand that was that night, evryone was feeling it, even those peeing and carsurfing.
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