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Led by the couple of artists Florian Chombart and Donna McCabe, A Ritual Sea is a French-Irish band that is all about swift melodies and ethereal atmosphere. They released their debut album this fall and A Ritual Sea makes a great compilation of slightly retro dream pop-aiming music.
Fittingly inspired by the movie works by Tarkovsky, Altman and Bergman, the album presents a subtler face of indie folk/rock with a lot of airy/ethereal influences. The indie pop, even twee-like, melodies here are super swift and energetic but also delicate, just like the female and male vocals. And fittingly for the noisy dream pop genre, they are contrasted with noisy, guitar-oriented music - although I must say, it's not very loud, sounding more like a compliment to the vocals and melodies, with the noise suggesting the deeper, noisier realms but not showing those that often. Perhaps that's what "sea" in the project's name stands for: the suggestion of something massive and dangerous but showing mostly the pretty, calm face.
The songs here differ as far as the quantity of noise is concerned; I prefer the tracks that are more into the exploration of the guitar loudness - like Prisms for example where the pop tunes are only an excuse to make something messier, but truth be told, melodies like the ones in Serpentine or Saving Grace are so attractive that it's difficult not to be affected by their charm.
A Ritual Sea costs 8 EUR.
Check: Prisms
Country: Ireland
Genre: melodic noise pop
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