MUSIC FOR NURSES

Music For Nurses is a 25 minute EP of original material, 5 non-album tracks that present a side of Oceansize different from the debut album. It shows the development of Oceansize from Efforescence to Everyone Into Position but doesn't have one track that matches the quality of the songs on the full length albums.

The noise rock of One Out of None is a lot more aggressive then anything else they had tried so far. It starts with a nice math metal intro but the song itself is pretty unremarkable, too typical emo pop indie for my taste. Paper Champion tries hard to emulate the pondering side of Tool. There are also some traces of industrial music in the style of Stabbing Westward. Not bad but I've got an overdose of this kind of stuff in the 90's.

After a short ambient interlude, Oceansize get to the most interesting track on this release. Dead Dogs is a concise take on post-rock, starting with a pensive mood and building up to a wall of sound in just under 5 minutes. As The Smoke Clears is an adventurous composition, but like most material here, it lacks the song quality of the albums around it. It treads around without much of an impression.

With not one track of outstanding quality, I'll have to convict this EP to fans only territory.