Oceans (Deluxe)
by Principe Valiente
€7.90 - €13.90*
Oceans (Deluxe)
by Principe Valiente
€7.90 - €13.90*
*price includes VAT if applicable.On 21st of June, 2019 we will be reissueing Principe Valiente’s highly acclaimed album “Oceans” originally released in 2017. The new special edition comes in a redesigned 6-panel-digipack with all original recordings plus all remixes and versions previously only available as download remastered by Tommy Steuer at TS-Musix Studios, Leipzig (Germany).
After an outstanding self-titled debut album in 2011 and the breathtaking “Choirs Of Blessed Youth” in 2014, the Swedish post punk / shoegaze band lead by Fernando Honorato, true to their vision, continues to carve out its own unique musical path. Drawing inspiration from ambient experimentalists like Cocteau Twins, 80’s sci-fi soundtracks as well as exuberant vocalists like Bowie and Kate Bush, PRINCIPE VALIENTE ventured deeper into the sonic landscapes of their minds.
The intensity of the athmospheric sound and the interplay of melodic guitar strings, the dark drifting drums, rhythmic bass lines and above all the warm, emotional voice of the singer, have remained. The listener is captured in a mixture of longing and loneliness, which is fluently and hypnotically directed. Calm pieces alternate with energetic compositions, such as the recently released single “Strangers In The Night”, and give the album a strong note of ambivalence.
With their third work “Oceans”, the band has created another alluring world with “human, all too human” lyrics and phantasmagorical soundscapes. Cool, yet impassioned and loaded with sweet anxiety, PRINCIPE VALIENTE have managed to make an irresistibly beautiful and intense continuation of what was started in the previous two albums.
“Oceans” was partly recorded by the producer Martin Ehrencrona (Les Big Byrd), and partly in various basements and art school lobbies around their hometown Stockholm, Sweden. The combination of innovative and inspired material makes for an invigorating listen as it is difficult to pinpoint in regard to genre.
Track Listing
- Wildest Flowers
- When I Learned To Crawl
- Strangers In The Night
- Untouchable
- Running Juveniles
- No Time
- The Reason Why
- Monsters Of The Sea
- Strangers In The Night (Mister Monell Remix)
- Strangers In The Night (New Canyons Remix)
- Wildest Flowers (Big City Bright Light Remix)
- Wildest Flowers (New Canyons Remix)
- When I Learned To Crawl (Live Piano Version)
