Okanagana Waves

As we press on through the finding random things in my collection it's time to slow things down a bit with some Ambient Rock/Shoegaze music in this post. For those not familiar with the Shoegaze genre, it's like being doped up on tranquilizers while you stare vacantly at your shoes while melodic ambient music plays in the background. That being said, there's not a whole lot of that in my collection. But there is some and in this post we focus on the duo Hollow Branches.

The band has been around for some time now, releasing a handful of EP's and what not. Based in two different cities, Portland Oregon and Oslo Norway, the duo of Robert Osgood and Marius Sjoli craft an Ambient Rock album full of goodness in 'Okanagana Waves'. The name draws on a scientific classification of moths, this album is a mellow laid back mix of Ambient Rock, Shoegaze and Post Modern Rock. Recorded over a nearly three year period, and released in '12, this marks the bands first real album. The bands previous works were short EP's and featured Jason Walton of Agalloch on tracks. So take a step back and relax to this prime slice of music.

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