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| Personnel Alex Brown Church vocals guitar keyboards percussion drum programming loops Zac Rae guitar keyboards percussion Lisa Fendelander keyboards background vocals Joey Ficken drums percussion drum programming Sara Lov background vocals Audio Mixer Kennie Takahashi With third album Old World Romance Sea Wolf bandleader Alex Church collapses the collaborative full-band approach of 2009 s White Water White Bloom opting this time to write record and produce the album on his own and play most of the instruments himself The result isn t an isolated-sounding album or even an especially insular one but Old World Romance does have a sense of singular perspective that goes back to the earliest incarnations of the band when Church operated Sea Wolf mostly as a solo project ornamented sometimes by other players Rather than a live-band feel in a folk-rock mode the songs rely more on drum machines and ornate recording arrangements dropping live drums in and out of perfectly paced acoustic landscapes Opening track Old Friend opens with a spare electronic rhythm and slowly introduces fingerpicked acoustic guitars dreamy textural elements and several tracks of Church s self-harmonizing melodies The production is precise and understated keeping all of the song s various instruments in check and allowing the introspective overall feel of the song to be the primary focus Much of the album takes this restrained approach rounding out any rough edges and leaving behind ten glisteningly smooth songs somewhere between chamber folk and synth-leaning indie rock The ship-at-sea rhythms of In Nothing are informed by the moodiest eras of Echo amp the Bunnymen and the similarities between Church s voice and Ian McCulloch s become very apparent over rocky tempos and 80s-borrowing melodic basslines Changing Seasons is another standout in this set crystallizing some of the album s upbeat melancholy into a restless anthem The polished nat |
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