Catalog number: LTD015
Release date: August 11, 2015
Format: Cassette
Edition size: 50
Ocean Charter of Values is Nicholas Laugher, also known for his work with Montreal psych-rock outfit Year of Glad and Haligonian songwriter David R. Elliott. OCOV’s tape debut is a dense suite of sprawling field ambience and shapeshifting musings on drinking red wine in fish shacks on the Nova Scotia shore, sneaking a smoke under the full moon, and being held up under blurring lights. Recorded in an abandoned satellite station in Halifax and then manipulated into their present form, these are songs that struggle to break free from their magnetic confines and fill the room. Flip the tape and Lung Cycles brings us in a little closer with a side of humid and stifling meditations for keyboard and tape recorded in churches, bagel shops, subway platforms, and bedrooms. It’s too hot to move, just slam the windows open and sweat it out.
Side A by Nick Laugher
Side B by Ben Lovell