There's a whale on the cover of this recording! Then I think I hear the whale at the beginning of the record! It is like the Moby Dick! The Exeter Popes recording 'Deep Sea Treachery' is like a very nice musical journey by sea. By track two 'New Moon' I am very into this. There is harmony vocals but not too sweetly. I believe they are talking about Vespas. My grand father often would drink a lot and ride a Vespa. He would have liked this Exeter Popes record after a few drinks and driving home poorly.
'Senegal Son' is much like most of the recording. There is very competent drumming and music. The singer is breathy and full of air and melody. There's a very cool drum like from the African places on this song. Just when I am in the middle of the journey, some mechanical beats and keyboards show up on the song 'idwgh'. I am not sure what word this is, and I cannot pronounce it without sounding like I have a mouth full of spettekaka! Never the less this song falls in line of the others even with the electronic flourishes. In fact I think the Exeter Popes should pursue this sound more often perhaps. It's very nice.
Everything on this record sounds very good for an indie band in fact very, very good. 'King Waltzer' is full of nice dancing feelings. The bass player is very smooth. The drumming then comes in on 'Hintorain' like the Phil Collins kind and is very powerful. This is something this band does very well which is put louder and more expanding elements together with more melodic and softer things on top. It is a successful mix of heavy and soft, which some bands cannot achieve without sounding very not so good and ballad.
I think the last song may be my favorite. It is a longer 'jam' type music with a bass line that reminds me of Jane's Addiction (big props to Eric Avery yes!) and the sound of it really makes you listen in like you are swimming in it a bit. By the time it gets louder I am hooked like the big whale grabbing a gigantic worm and being pulled up by a crane that shaped like huge fishing rod! It is the sea and I am swimming in The Exeter Popes!
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