Jay Crocker – Below The Ocean Over
By J Cassetta • Oct 11th, 2008 • Category: Music, The Daily Dic
I was listening to some wailing trumpet solos when I got the press release about Jay Crocker’s new album Below The Ocean Over, so when I heard this track off it, the horn parts fit suspiciously well with the playlist I’d been listening to and enjoying on my own.
Crocker you might know as a member of another Calgary band I posted about a while ago called Ghostkeeper, but – and this might just because the album is still fresh – I’ve been enjoying Below The Ocean Over more than Ghostkeeper’s material. The album racks up a variety of styles, including some songs that are a little too unfocused (I think the technical term is ‘experimental’) for my tastes, but in certain songs Crocker seems to have tapped into that universally sought recipe for mixing “pop sensibility” with, you know, all that other cool stuff about music. What does that mean? I don’t know, but it sounds like this:
Jay Crocker – Below The Ocean Over Pt. 23
Any one else hear a little Randy Newman in there? Anyway, the album is out October 14th on Artunit. Check it out.
