Featuring a rousing structural build and introspective lyrical immersion, “Ocean of Hours” is a resonating new track from David Cloyd. The track comes via Cloyd’s anticipated upcoming album, Red Sky Warning, out in early 2025 via ECR Music Group. Featuring co-production and mixing from Blake Morgan, “Ocean of Hours” compels in its spacious range between folk-laden contemplation and anthemic rock/pop heights.
The track develops with a climactic fervency, fusing guitars, strings, and ruminating vocals with seamless enthrallment. “We were filled with dread, gripping tight the rails,” the vocals let out, arising into a grandiose, emotional invigoration as the vocals drive into the title-referencing asking. “Where did the time go?” they ask, swelling into stirring guitar distortion past the three-minute turn — and into a brief folk-laden minimalism that swells for an anthemic close, melding the previous instrumentation together. “Ocean of Hours” is a strongly memorable success from Cloyd; we’re now firmly anticipating his upcoming album, which he elaborates further on below:
“This album is a love story. I’ve been in love with making music for as long as I can remember. It’s a deeply mysterious love to me, and exploring it is not the search for an answer—for me, the exploration is the answer. I felt the same thing when I met my wife, and I’ve watched the two great loves of my life dance through it all together. It’s not always graceful, but it’s always beautiful.”
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This and other tracks featured this month can be streamed on the updating Obscure Sound’s ‘Emerging Singles’ Spotify playlist.
We discovered this release via MusoSoup, as part of the artist’s promotional campaign.
