This time around it's the late Harry Nilsson who casts the largest shadow, especially on the hipster-slamming title track, which sets the tone for a string of 'Martha My Dear'-meets-'Me and My Arrow' backbeats, comforting, timeless melodies, and lyrics that juggle biting satire and whimsy with startling acumen. Where the latter two releases felt like 'Hail Marys' tossed into the musical ether, Ocean serves as a return to the kind of sharp-tongued, Beatlesque retro-pop that fueled 2005's Novelist/Walking Without Effort and the aforementioned Letdown. Genre-hopping Minnesota-based pop auteur Richard Swift's The Atlantic Ocean is more of an 'official' follow-up to 2007's Dressed Up for the Letdown than the double shot of Music from the Films of R/Swift (under the pseudonym Instruments of Science and Technology) and the cathartic but nearly unlistenable Richard Swift as Onasis. Spry and creatively unmoored, Richard Swift's The Atlantic Ocean breathes life into boilerplate piano-man song structures, with the artist, though stationed mostly behind the ivories, peppering his. Watch the video for The Original Thought from Richard Swift's The Atlantic Ocean for free, and see the artwork, lyrics and similar artists.
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