When Anathema announced an indefinite hiatus on 22nd September 2020, due in part to the financial burdens of a lengthy career that had failed somewhat to live up to expectations in commercial terms, it was a crying shame, but also totally understandable. It always seemed likely, however, that the two remaining founding brothers Daniel and Vincent Cavanagh would eventually make new music again, and 2024 has seen them both emerge from their semi-retirement with new projects.

Vincent's new art-rock project 'The Radicant' released a debut 5-track EP called 'We Ascend' earlier this year, but the debut album by Daniel Cavanagh's 'Weather Systems' (also the name of one of his former band's most acclaimed albums), called 'Ocean Without A Shore' is probably the closest thing that Anathema fans will get to a continuation of that band's at least temporarily halted career.

The album is made up of new versions of songs that were originally intended to form the next Anathema album anyway, since in 2019 Daniel began writing what he thought would become the basis of the next Anathema offering, and to finally bring the album to fruition, he teamed up with multi-instrumentalist Daniel Cardoso, who played drums on the two most recent Anathema albums 'Distant Satellites' and 'The Optimist'. The 'Ocean Without A Shore' album was released on September 27th via Music Theories Recordings (part of the Mascot Label Group).

1. Synaesthesia (9:11) 

2. Do Angels Sing Like Rain? (5:06) 

3. Untouchable Part 3 (5:55) 

4. Ghost In The Machine (4:53) 

5. Are You There? Part 2 (5:58) 

6. Still Lake (5:58) 

7. Take Me With You (6:09) 

8. Ocean Without A Shore (7:17) 

9. The Space Between Us (6:04) 

Total Time 56:31

- Daniel Cavanagh / vocals, electric and acoustic guitar, bass, keyboards, piano, electric piano, programming, vocoder, string arrangements

- Daniel Cardoso / drums

With:

- Soraia Silva / vocals

- Oliwia Krettek / vocals

- Petter Carlsen / vocals

- Paul Kearns / vocals