From the sea to the land beyond

"Taking their cues from the nostalgia-tinged visuals, British Sea Power's largely (but not solely) instrumental score is a weighty slab of almost symphonic post-rock. Like the crashing waves on screen, the score ebbs and flows, masterfully narrating through song the tumult of twentieth-century-Britain ... As an album on its own From the Sea... is up there with the best of British Sea Power's work".

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"Dotted with intelligently applied sound effects and bits of newsreel narration, From the Sea to the Land Beyond often recalls Rachel's' post-rock masterpiece The Sea and the Bells in its evocative impact and thoughtful embrace of elements outside the palette of most rock bands; this isn't rock & roll, but what it is is something very special, and this is the rare film soundtrack that works nearly as well on its own as it does accompanying another artist's images".

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