"Take the good pill / And worry a little less but still / When everything’s wrong it’s hard to let go..."
The sprite keyboard dance that starts off London DIY baroque pop / indie rockers Tugboat Captain's dream laden "Deep Sea Diving" blossoms into surreal emotional trips that ebb and flow and explode too. Besides the whimsy, the lush beauty and pure escapism there are sonic nods to mid to late 70's pop but also to the 90's avant pop / rock that might of lovingly borrowed from that era too. In one deep listening breath I thought of both the psychedelic beauty of Supertramp and the sideways softer edges of Modest Mouse.
Loving the slap of the drums, the mellotron-esque orchestrations, the almost floral ambience and the growing existential dread as Alexander Sokolow wonders aloud "Deep sea diving / Down here there’s a whole world hiding Maybe there’s more than meets the eye / Worlds colliding / Down here there are no stars shining Maybe we’re running on borrowed time..." and realizes (like a lot of us) that we may never know the answers to all these cosmic questions but there is comfort and luckily for us, sonic beauty, in asking the questions.
The birth of the song?
Press notes share "Supertramp-esque wiggler of a track about polymetallic nodules found on the ocean floor and the anxiety of impending ecological collapse."
-Robb Donker Curtius
THE FACTS AS WE KNOW THEM
https://open.spotify.com/artist/3gBLnOLSOAV0tXQa6ZGGKb
https://tugboatcaptain.bandcamp.com/
https://www.instagram.com/tugboat_captain/
Born in 2017 as the solo project of London based multi-instrumentalist Alexander Sokolow, Tugboat Captain have morphed over three albums and a handful of EP's into an ambitious baroque-pop four piece. Growing from 2017's moody lo-fi debut 'The Tugboat Captain' through jangly, folk-inflected sophomore record 'Everybody Seem's To Think That I'm A Raincloud', into the murky waters of a 2020 lockdown the band released their debut studio album, 'Rut'. On Rut the band emerged from the sonic limitations of homespun bedroom-pop accompanied by a ramshackle orchestra of friends with a grand, symphonic pop record which lost none of the intimacy of the previous work that garnered significant critical acclaim across the UK DIY community.
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