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"Oldest Sea cite a variety of inspirations, the obvious picks like Shape of Despair and Mournful Congregation plus more eclectic selections like Roy Orbison, Björk and soundtrack composers like John Carpenter. The last one is particularly notable because there is a cinematic current that runs through ‘A Birdsong.’ It’s immediately apparent on first song ‘Sacred Destruction,’ which opens with sparse, expansive chords and Samantha Marandola’s shimmering vocals. The album picks up speed throughout its nearly 40-minute runtime before concluding with similarly crashing chords and angelic singing."
–Decibel
"Like Neurosis rewriting Angelo Badalamenti’s Twin Peaks soundtrack... 'A Birdsong, A Ghost' is a very dark album, both musically and thematically, and one that, although not easy to listen to, should absolutely be taken in one full sitting, like a course of medicine to purge your soul. Despite its individual parts being horribly bleak in places, there is something cleansing and cathartic in experiencing the full astonishing horror of it all."
–Distorted Sound
"A combination of experimental soundscapes and heavy doom metal... 'A Birdsong, A Ghost' grows more impactful with each listen, a unique and experimental sonic journey."
–Heavy Music HQ
"A husband-and-wife duo from rural New Jersey, Oldest Sea have a penchant for dark beauty in a way that touches upon folk music and isn’t afraid to reveal itself to funeral doom fanatics. Their slow and powerful music features plenty of dark turns, so it is no wonder that they have shared the same stage with Bell Witch, Mizmor and others of said ilk."
–Invisible Oranges
"Doom and the words 'beautiful,' 'angelic,' 'euphoric,' generally don’t go together but in the more than capable hands of husband and wife duo Oldest Sea, those terms take on a life of their own on their latest full length 'A Birdsong, A Ghost'... It’s doom with a pulse, a heart, and a unique life all its own."
–Nine Circles
"It’s a wholly transportive experience of contrasts and complements, a union of the ethereal and the staggeringly heavy. The spell it casts is heart-breaking and chilling, but in the music it feels like the bedrock of the earth is heaving and fracturing too."
–No Clean Singing
"Grueling riffs, fragile-but-maybe-rage-shaking vocal melodies, a resonant expression and a heft that goes beyond tone to the overarching atmosphere."
–The Obelisk
"A husband-and-wife duo from rural New Jersey, Oldest Sea have a penchant for dark beauty in a way that touches upon folk music and isn’t afraid to reveal itself to funeral doom fanatics. Their slow and powerful music features plenty of dark turns, so it is no wonder that they have shared the same stage with Bell Witch, Mizmor and others of said ilk."
–Invisible Oranges
"Doom and the words 'beautiful,' 'angelic,' 'euphoric,' generally don’t go together but in the more than capable hands of husband and wife duo Oldest Sea, those terms take on a life of their own on their latest full length 'A Birdsong, A Ghost'... It’s doom with a pulse, a heart, and a unique life all its own."
–Nine Circles
"It’s a wholly transportive experience of contrasts and complements, a union of the ethereal and the staggeringly heavy. The spell it casts is heart-breaking and chilling, but in the music it feels like the bedrock of the earth is heaving and fracturing too."
–No Clean Singing
"Grueling riffs, fragile-but-maybe-rage-shaking vocal melodies, a resonant expression and a heft that goes beyond tone to the overarching atmosphere."
–The Obelisk
"Album of the Week... Thundering, achingly slow."
–Tinnitist
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