Effloresce (album)

Effloresce is the debut studio album by British progressive rock band Oceansize. It was released on 29 September 2003. The record garnered considerable praise from critics.

Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
Allmusic [1]
Drowned in Sound(9/10) [2]
The List [3]
The PRP(4/5) link
Scene Point Blank(9.5/10) link
Sputnikmusic(4.5/5) [4]
Tiny Mix Tapes link

Effloresce
Studio album by
Oceansize
Released29 September 2003
RecordedFebruary–March 2003
StudioJacob's Studio, Farnham, Surrey
GenreProgressive rock, alternative rock, post-rock, space rock[1]
Length75:34
LabelBeggars Banquet Records
ProducerChris Sheldon, Oceansize
Oceansize chronology
Relapse EP
(2002)		 Effloresce
(2003)		 Music for Nurses
(2004)

Track listing

All songs written by Oceansize.

  1. "I Am the Morning" – 4:18
  2. "Catalyst" – 6:40
  3. "One Day All This Could Be Yours" – 4:19
  4. "Massive Bereavement" – 9:59
  5. "Rinsed" – 3:58
  6. "You Wish" – 6:00
  7. "Remember Where You Are" – 5:22
  8. "Amputee" – 5:32
  9. "Unravel" – 2:50
  10. "Women Who Love Men Who Love Drugs" – 8:30
  11. "Saturday Morning Breakfast Show" – 9:04
  12. "Long Forgotten" – 8:57

Trivia
  • The band chose the name Effloresce at random from a dictionary. Original titles for the album included Career and Mine Host, the latter of which is the name of a song on the band's next full-length album, Everyone Into Position.[5]
  • The title of "Massive Bereavement" is a reference to The Day Today, where it is the name of a horse.
  • The piano line playing on Track 9, "Unravel," is an excerpt of the second piece, Le Gibet, from Maurice Ravel's Gaspard de la Nuit.
  • The title of "Women Who Love Men Who Love Drugs" was coined by bassist Jon Ellis, who saw the headline of the same name on the front of Cosmopolitan Magazine.[6]

Personnel

Additional personnel
  • Chris Sheldon – production (with Oceansize), mixing
  • Adrian Newton – assistant engineer
  • Louis Read – assistant engineer
  • Dario Dendi – assistant engineer
  • Jack Clark – assistant engineer
  • Martin & Kimberly McCarrick – cello, violin, viola on "Massive Bereavement" and "Long Forgotten"
  • Claire Lemmon – backing vocals on "Massive Bereavement" and "Saturday Morning Breakfast Show"

References
  1. Wilson, MacKenzie. Effloresce at AllMusic
  2. Rauf, Raziq. "Album Review: Oceansize - Effloresce / Releases / Releases // Drowned In Sound". drownedinsound.com. Archived from the original on 4 December 2014. Retrieved 25 September 2014.
  3. Pia, Camilla (18 September 2003). "Rock: Oceansize - Effloresce (Beggars Banquet)". p. 105. Retrieved 31 December 2021. {{cite magazine}}: Cite magazine requires |magazine= (help)
  4. FlawedPerfection. "Oceansize - Effloresce (album review 5)". Sputnikmusic. Retrieved 23 August 2019.
  5. @Vennart (28 September 2020). "Indeed. Sorry to ruin the magic guys, but that's exactly what happened. Mark Heron wanted to call it 'Career', due to the cover. Similarly, I wanted to call it 'Mine Host'. Vetoed, as someone refused to accept that the expression wasn't German. 😩" (Tweet) – via Twitter.
  6. @Vennart (1 December 2020). "The title came from Jon, who saw it on the front of Cosmopolitan magazine Again, another real moment of 'THIS is who were are' in a way. This song stayed around, to the point where it was the final song we ever played together" (Tweet) – via Twitter.
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