Ocean Roar (album)
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| Studio album by Mount Eerie | ||||
| Released | August 29, 2012 | |||
| Recorded | January 4, 2011, to February 21, 2012, at the Unknown in Anacortes, Washington | |||
| Genre | Indie rock, noise rock | |||
| Length | 38:43 | |||
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P.W. Elverum & Sun, Ltd. (ELV 026) |
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| Producer | Phil Elverum | |||
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| Source | Rating |
| Metacritic | 85/100 |
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| Allmusic |   |
| No Ripcord | 9/10 |
| Pitchfork Media | 8.1/10 |
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Ocean Roar is the sixth studio album by Mount Eerie, released on August 29, 2012. It is the second of two albums released by Mount Eerie in 2012.
Ocean Roar is the second of two albums released by Mount Eerie in 2012.Phil Elvrum described Ocean Roar as a "counterpoint to the soft synth walls and landscape pondering of Clear Moon, presenting the opposite of that album’s clear glints of awareness: a total wall of blue-grey oceanic fog, a half remembered dream of a trip through dense old growth hills to the gnarly winter ocean, in the middle of the night, decades ago."
Ocean Roar received mostly positive reviews. At Metacritic, which assigns a normalized rating out of 100 to reviews from mainstream critics, the album received an average score of 85, based on 11 reviews, indicating "universal acclaim".
The album was listed 38th on Stereogum's list of the top 50 albums of 2012.
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