Julie Ocean
Long Gone and Nearly There
D.C.-based rocking pop band, ex-Velocity Girl
Just because a CD will hold 80 minutes of music doesn’t mean it should.
Ten songs totaling just over 25 minutes in length, Long Gone and Nearly
ere, the debut album from Washington D.C.-based quartet Julie Ocean
makes a case for fast over fatuous, poppy over prog, and concise over
complicated. The album is being released by Transit of Venus, distributed in
the U.S. by RedEye.
Julie Ocean songs generally follow three simple steps: they start, they make
their point, and they stop �" but, somewhere along the way, they charm, too.
Long Gone and Nearly There is underpinned by a taut, frenetic energy
reminiscent of Dag Nasty and The Descendents, is infused with the casual
chaos of primetime Guided By Voices and Pavement, and contains undeniable
elements of sweet 60s pop of an early Beatles stripe, coupled with the searing
melodicism of late 70s heroes The Jam and The Undertones (from whom the
band takes its name).
Guitarist/singer Jim Spellman was a member of 90s alterna-faves Velocity
Girl, who released three top selling albums on the Sub Pop label, and he
played guitar in e High Back Chairs, Jeff Nelson’s post-Minor reat
combo. Guitarist/singer Terry Banks has played in a host of critically
acclaimed indie rock bands, including the Saturday People (Slumberland
label), Tree Fort Angst (Bus Stop) and Glo-Worm (K Records.) In the late
80s, drummer Alex Daniels was the teenage dynamo propelling the
young-and-angry Swiz and later took an artier turn as the drummer in Severin,
who recorded for the Dischord label. Bassist Hunter Bennett began musical
life in a post-Government Issue outfit called Weatherhead, an odd, D.C-based
collective who troubled the early 90s stages of DC Space and other hallowed
spots �" sometimes wearing masks.
Long Gone and Nearly There was produced by Geoff Sanoff whose
production credits include Fountains of Wayne, Luna, and The Secret
Machines, among others. Julie Ocean frequently plays live in the D.C. area
and plans to play dates in support of the record on the East Coast �" and
perhaps a few other further-flung places, too.
For more information on the band, visit myspace.com/JulieOceanDC
Track Listings
01 Ten Lonely Words 02 #1 Song 03 My Revenge
04 At The Appointed Hour 05 Here Comes Danny 06 Bright Idea
07 Complications 08 Ebb & Flow 09 There’s A Place (In th e Back Of My
Mind) 10 Looking At Me/Looking At You
Long Gone and Nearly There
D.C.-based rocking pop band, ex-Velocity Girl
Just because a CD will hold 80 minutes of music doesn’t mean it should.
Ten songs totaling just over 25 minutes in length, Long Gone and Nearly
ere, the debut album from Washington D.C.-based quartet Julie Ocean
makes a case for fast over fatuous, poppy over prog, and concise over
complicated. The album is being released by Transit of Venus, distributed in
the U.S. by RedEye.
Julie Ocean songs generally follow three simple steps: they start, they make
their point, and they stop �" but, somewhere along the way, they charm, too.
Long Gone and Nearly There is underpinned by a taut, frenetic energy
reminiscent of Dag Nasty and The Descendents, is infused with the casual
chaos of primetime Guided By Voices and Pavement, and contains undeniable
elements of sweet 60s pop of an early Beatles stripe, coupled with the searing
melodicism of late 70s heroes The Jam and The Undertones (from whom the
band takes its name).
Guitarist/singer Jim Spellman was a member of 90s alterna-faves Velocity
Girl, who released three top selling albums on the Sub Pop label, and he
played guitar in e High Back Chairs, Jeff Nelson’s post-Minor reat
combo. Guitarist/singer Terry Banks has played in a host of critically
acclaimed indie rock bands, including the Saturday People (Slumberland
label), Tree Fort Angst (Bus Stop) and Glo-Worm (K Records.) In the late
80s, drummer Alex Daniels was the teenage dynamo propelling the
young-and-angry Swiz and later took an artier turn as the drummer in Severin,
who recorded for the Dischord label. Bassist Hunter Bennett began musical
life in a post-Government Issue outfit called Weatherhead, an odd, D.C-based
collective who troubled the early 90s stages of DC Space and other hallowed
spots �" sometimes wearing masks.
Long Gone and Nearly There was produced by Geoff Sanoff whose
production credits include Fountains of Wayne, Luna, and The Secret
Machines, among others. Julie Ocean frequently plays live in the D.C. area
and plans to play dates in support of the record on the East Coast �" and
perhaps a few other further-flung places, too.
For more information on the band, visit myspace.com/JulieOceanDC
Track Listings
01 Ten Lonely Words 02 #1 Song 03 My Revenge
04 At The Appointed Hour 05 Here Comes Danny 06 Bright Idea
07 Complications 08 Ebb & Flow 09 There’s A Place (In th e Back Of My
Mind) 10 Looking At Me/Looking At You
