Expanded for this 15th anniversary reissue with radio sessions and B-sides and extensive new sleeve notes.
This kaleidoscopic record encapsulates Sea Power's true heart. The album takes in meteorological disaster (‘Canvey Island’), celestial pollution (‘Lights Out For Darker Skies’), a rousing and intricate anthem to European unity (‘Waving Flags’) and a moving instrumental named after a piratical sea bird, ‘The Great Skua’, a track that has gone on to soundtrack several conservation films. The track ‘No Lucifer’ illustrates the scope of the album, a composition that places Big Daddy’s TV wresting chant (“Easy, easy”) beside Biblical ideas of Armageddon.