The best oceansize record with some of their best songs. Music for a Nurse is so beautiful and incredibly constiently with some tracks like You Can't Keep a Bad Man Down stretching itself a bit thin but with some elements of post-rock thrown in to make the progression of tracks flows much smoother and an overall melodic and quite a slow burning, Everyone Into Position comes off more rewarding than tedious with its display of passion
Track Review
The Charm Offensive 9/10
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Everyone Into Position is THE Oceansize album. It is the one that best represents who they are as a band and perfects that sound before moving onto more expansive waters. This is groove-laden post-rock at its absolute best, even if I do somewhat prefer the shoegaze-y wall of sound of their debut. This clears up the muddy waters and tightens up the execution of their ideas, leading to the most accessible and influential record while forsaking none of the creativity, ambition, and identity. This ... read more
You ever have one of those real spiritual moments with a song that you've already heard a bunch of times, but for some reason you just connect to especially hard this one random time?
I'm shopping in Lidl and their ventialtion system/AC is so loud it fills my head with white noise that i need something to drown it out, so i put on Everyone into Position, cause i finally got a CD copy, and because it's just a great album.
Anyway about halfway through the album, Music for a Nurse comes on and ... read more