North Atlantic Oscillation - Grappling Hooks [2010][EAC,log,cue torrent

Artist:North Atlantic Oscillation
Release:Grappling Hooks
Released: 2010
Label: kScope
Catalog#: KSCOPE143
Format: FLAC / Lossless / Log (100%) / Cue
Country: UK
Style:Prog Rock

1 Marrow 2:04
2 Hollywood Has Ended 4:56
3 Cell Count 4:57
4 Some Blue Hive 4:50
5 Audioplastic 4:25
6 Ceiling Poem 4:10
7 Alexanderplatz 3:38
8 77 Hours 5:09
9 Star Chamber 3:14
10 Drawing Maps From Memory 3:45
11 Ritual 7:08
12 [Untitled] 0:48

After a busy and exciting 2009, releasing their debut EP and playing shows with the likes of Porcupine Tree, Explosions in the Sky and Cymbals Eat Guitars, North Atlantic Oscillation’s debut album, Grappling Hooks, is released on March 22nd on Kscope.

The band have been described as prog-pop and electro-rock, but really they just make music. The music has soaring harmonies and loud guitars and dreamy synths and heavy drums and strange effects and unexpected changes-of-mind.

NAO are the Scottish based trio of Sam Healy (vocals, guitar, bass, keyboards, synths, sax, percussion), Ben Martin (drums, percussion, programming) and Bill Walsh (bass, synth bass, vocals). They describe themselves as playing their instruments within a computerised wall of sound.

Grappling Hooks is a subtle yet powerful kaleidoscope of purring electronics, atmospheric layers and hook-laden melodies. Preceded by single Drawing Maps from Memory, out on March 8th, the album proves that the praise that was heaped upon Callsigns EP was entirely justified.