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Track Listings
| 1. It Ended On An Oily Stage |
| 2. Be Gone |
| 3. How Will I Ever Find My Way Home? |
| 4. Like A Honeycomb |
| 5. Please Stand Up |
| 6. North Hanging Rock |
| 7. To Get To Sleep |
| 8. Victorian Ice |
| 9. Oh Larsen B |
| 10. The Land Beyond |
| 11. True Adventures |
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Brighton's British Sea Power are a band that perhaps shouldn't exist in the 21st Century, but a listen to their fine second album Open Season ought to be enough to convince you that it's a good thing they do. BSP are antiquated in sound as in style – although their music doesn't quite hail back quite as far as those WWI-style military jackets might suggest, stabilizing round about the mid-'80s in empathy with post-punk-touchstones Echo and the Bunnymen and the Teardrop Explodes. It's a keen sense of the theatrical and the absurd, however, that ensures tracks like "It Ended On An Oily Stage" and "To Get To Sleep" are anything but museum pieces: frontman Yan – BSP don't do surnames – overcomes his slightly limited range by investing every utterance with Box Of Delights wonder, imploring the listener to "drape yourself in greenery/become part of the scenery" on 'North Hanging Rock'. That's rock'n'roll the British Sea Power way: live fast, die young, leave a good-looking copse --Louis Pattison
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BRITISH SEA POWER Open Season (2005 UK 11-track CD featuring the second album from the Brighton-based band produced by Mads Bjerke. Includes the single It Ended On An Oily Stage and Please Stand Up. Housed inside a blue digipak picture sleeve embossed with silver stars RTRADCD200)
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10 of 11 people found the following review helpful
By FoxyPablo
Format:Audio CD
It's always nice when a record exceeds your expectations, particularly when you're expecting quite a lot.
'The Decline of British Sea Power' is a great record that rewards the more patient listener, although many find the rawness of some of the tracks at bit hard to take.
'Open Season' dispenses with most of the rough edges, and replaces them with an expansive sound which although perhaps less challenging, is at times bold and upfront, and at others beautiful and reflective (the cello on 'The Land Beyond' being one of many highpoints). Stomping pop tunes and brooding epics a speciality.
An apparent obsession with UK wildlife and World War II may not invite mainstream attention, and even the most attentive listener won't have a clue what they're on about most of the time, but in truth this is a great rock/pop album that offers something with that bit more magic than your usual Zutons/Arctic Monkeys/Futureheads etc etc plodders.
My favourite album of 2005 by some distance
'The Decline of British Sea Power' is a great record that rewards the more patient listener, although many find the rawness of some of the tracks at bit hard to take.
'Open Season' dispenses with most of the rough edges, and replaces them with an expansive sound which although perhaps less challenging, is at times bold and upfront, and at others beautiful and reflective (the cello on 'The Land Beyond' being one of many highpoints). Stomping pop tunes and brooding epics a speciality.
An apparent obsession with UK wildlife and World War II may not invite mainstream attention, and even the most attentive listener won't have a clue what they're on about most of the time, but in truth this is a great rock/pop album that offers something with that bit more magic than your usual Zutons/Arctic Monkeys/Futureheads etc etc plodders.
My favourite album of 2005 by some distance
18 of 21 people found the following review helpful
By James Choles
Format:Audio CD
This is a great album from Brighton's - and Britain's - most distinctive and exciting band. It is a less abrasive and more upbeat album than 'The Decline of BSP', more 'radio friendly' you could say.
Single 'It Ended on an Oily Stage' is a prime example of this, a great pop song frayed at the edges. [The fade-out reminds me slightly of Wilco's 'A Ghost is Born', a reference point perhaps]
But otherwise most key BSP motifs remain. Their pastoral fixation [The song 'Oh Larsen B', a standout track, is an ode to an Antarctic ice shelf!], angular guitar from Noble, Yan's breathless vocals.
Bassist Hamilton also has his share of lead vocals, most memorably on the closing, seven and a half minute, 'True Adventures'. Opening with peals of thunder and a general cacophony that recalls Godspeed You! Black Emperor, the track then morphs into a quite exquisite ballad - epic, widescreen rock at its finest.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
Format:Audio CD
This second album from British Sea Power is very different from both the other albums in its scope and sound. It still has the strange lyrical themes as found in 'Oh Larsen B' and 'North Hanging Rock' which are a favourite ice shelf and being part of nature respectivley. But there is none of the visceral and angular guitars which were found on the debut and certainley none of the anthems found on the third album. The only moment that it does would be on 'How Will I Ever Find My Way Home' with the brilliant Sonic Youth esque guitars. This is a much more understated album and its fantastic for doing that. It has a much more melodic and accesible feel to it, however this does not detract from the quality of the album. A brilliant follow up to the debut and really enjoyable because of the contrast.
Top 5 Tracks - 'It Ended On An Oily Stage', 'How Will I Ever Find My Way Home', 'North Hanging Rock', 'Oh Larsen B' and 'True Adventures'.
Top 5 Tracks - 'It Ended On An Oily Stage', 'How Will I Ever Find My Way Home', 'North Hanging Rock', 'Oh Larsen B' and 'True Adventures'.
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Great
I first discovered 'British Sea Power, after purchasing 'From the sea to the land beyond' so bought this album to check them out. Read more
Published 2 months ago by Mrs. D. Fox
4.0 out of 5 stars
As A Whole Perhaps Not BSP At Their Best But When Its Good It's Very...
One of the most interesting alternative bands around. I say alternative because they are still something of a cult here rather than a household name but even though that following... Read more
Published 14 months ago by Sammac
5.0 out of 5 stars
The One That Wasn't 'The Decline Of...'
I have to admit I was a little disappointed with Open Season when it first came out. The Decline Of British Sea Power had an immediacy and edge that Open Season appeared to lack... Read more
Published on 16 Sep 2010 by Sean Gibbins
3.0 out of 5 stars
Not Bad but not Good Either
British Sea Power's 2003 debut album, The Decline Of British Sea Power was a noisy, angry, full-frontal body slam of a record. Read more
Published on 20 Aug 2010 by P. Frizelle
4.0 out of 5 stars
A band for all seasons
With their wildly imaginative songs about God, longshore drift and Polar explorers, British Sea Power are the anti-Embrace and for that we should, well, embrace them. Read more
Published on 8 Feb 2007 by Kevin Clarke
3.0 out of 5 stars
no edge
I've listened to this quite a few times now and whilst its growing on me I still don't think this is any great shakes - definitely not life-changing music. Read more
Published on 16 July 2006 by Mike J. Wheeler
5.0 out of 5 stars
Sinking the opposition!
If you have ever read any of my other reviews, there is a constant theme throughout, my desperation at and continuing exasperation at the muck and mire of British Indie Dross,... Read more
Published on 5 Jun 2006 by Robert Stephenson
4.0 out of 5 stars
Great, catchy, modern
This is a great album with some wonderfully catchy songs. It can however be accused of sounding all the same. Read more
Published on 22 May 2006 by Ben Oliver
3.0 out of 5 stars
2 and a half stars
Middle-of-the-road. I can't see what the appeal is, it sounds to me like some half formed ideas cobbled together to pad out an album. The guy's voice is very breathy and weak. Read more
Published on 29 Mar 2006 by "mprice310"
5.0 out of 5 stars
Power to the British
This is the BSP's second album, following on from The Decline of BSP. All in all, this sequel is blander than their classic debut. Read more
Published on 17 Sep 2005 by Mr. C. J. Oakley
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