Sea Power

Sea Power – Everything Was Forever (2022)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 47:00 minutes | 931 MB | Genre: Rock
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Golden Chariot Records Ltd

British Sea Power was founded in Reading in 2000. After 20 years and seven albums, they changed their name to Sea Power in 2021, which they justified as follows: “Recently, a certain kind of nationalism has been on the rise in this world – an isolationist, antagonistic nationalism with which we don’t want to be confused. It has become apparent that the name British Sea Power can be misunderstood, especially if you don’t know the band or their recordings. We always wanted to be an internationalist band, but maybe having a specific nation-state in our name wasn’t the smartest way to demonstrate that.”

Their new album “Everything Was Forever” shows that nothing has changed in the six-piece band except the name: melodic guitar pop meets post-punk, electronica, krautrock and experimentalism. At most, a bit of nostalgia has been added, which already resonates in the album title.

Sea Power already revealed how the new work sounds at the end of 2021 with the first single release “Two Fingers”, which singer Yan Scott Wilkinson described as follows: “The song is partly inspired by our late father. He used to greet people on TV with two fingers – kind of an old-fashioned toast to toast people or events: I’ll toast with two fingers, to a message or to the memory of a childhood friend. In the song, it’s a toast to everyone, the people in our lives and those who are sadly gone, and to making the world a better place.”

Sea Power recorded ten songs in total for “Everything Was Forever”, including the second single “Lakeland Echo”. For the production, they worked with Graham Sutton for the first time in ten years. But, like so many other bands, the Corona pandemic presented Sea Power with some difficulties. Supported by their loyal fans, they were finally able to finance the record via crowdfunding.
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