“The Ocean” is a captivating, dynamic folk stunner from Eli Waltz — immersing in both its understated ooh-ing and howling vocal passion. Impressing in the past with tracks like “Writer’s Block” and “Tibetan Bones,” “The Ocean” lends a dark mystique in similarly compelling form.
“She dances on sand, trampling castles in her wake,” the vocals let out a sense of foreboding, lamenting “I’m a land-locked man,” and a victim to another one’s tides. A wordless vocal passion sends chills thereafter, venturing into a tale of heartrending beckoning that plays as “an ode to the woman who can steal and break hearts as easily as mending them.”
“She won’t cry me a river, she won’t rain on my parade,” Waltz’s vocals begin into an escalating fervency, musing on the concepts of time and love into the multi-vocal warmness passing the three-minute turn. A fervent assembly of vocals leads into the conclusion with scorching entrancement, capping off “The Ocean” with passionate finality: “She is the ocean, and the waves are fate. She dances on sand trampling castles in her wake.”
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This and other tracks can be streamed on the updating Obscure Sound’s ‘Emerging Indie Folk’ Spotify playlist.
