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The Ocean Blue’s gentle return
20 March 2001

US ’90s indie pop icons The Ocean Blue never really went away. It’s just that we haven’t heard from them in a while. Their previous album, 1996’s See The Ocean Blue, has long since been out of print—since about the time England’s The Bluetones picked up their musical torch (which The Ocean Blue had taken from such ’60s bands as The Buckinghams, Herman’s Hermits, and The Buffalo Springfield) and moved it simultaneously forward and backward with more noise and psychedelic spice.
    These days the only older OB albums available are their self-titled debut and 1991’s Cerulean.
    Last year the band self-released a limited-edition, self-produced album, recorded in their own studio, titled Davy Jones’ Locker. Now upstate New York indie label March Records (The Waves, The Clientele, Lloyd Cole) has picked up the album and released it in association with Boulder’s What Are Records (Frank Black & The Catholics, Stuart Matthewman, Neil Finn).
    The Ocean Blue are on tour now in the US, with a show this Saturday in Chicago at the Double Door, 29 March in San Francisco at Slim’s, and 30 March in Los Angeles at The Troubadour. | The Ocean Blue on March Records | | fan site | | bio | | discography | | CD | | top of page |

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