A Newbury Comics North America exclusive color vinyl pressing.
Since 2001, the Berlin-based musician collective The Ocean have released 7 critically acclaimed studio al-bums, and a split EP with Japanese post-rock legends Mono. With an ever-changing lineup of various on- and off-stage musicians and visual artists, the relentlessly touring group have become well known for their immense, mind-expanding live shows, which they have carried into the most remote corners of the globe, from Siberian squats to colonial theatres in Ecuador.
After 5 years of touring on Pelagial, the band started recording their 8th studio album in February 2018, split into two volumes to be separately released in 2018 and 2020 respectively, titled Phanerozoic. The Phanerozoic eon succeeded the Precambrian supereon, spanning a 500 million-year period leading to the present day, and it has witnessed the evolution and diversification of plant and animal life on Earth, and the partial destruction of it during 5 mass extinction events. Conceptually and musically, The Ocean’s Phanero-zoic is the missing link between the albums Precambrian and Heliocentric / Anthropocentric.
Album packaged in 16mm spine triple-gatefold with 6 layers of diecut panels, includes printed inner sleeve and insert sheet.
