Laughing Dreams by The Ocular Audio Experiment

Alex Pollock of The Ocular Audio Experiment has kept himself busy since the band’s multi-release year of 2012 (The Witch’s Whispering Tomes Parts 1, 2, and Ghoul). After four years of fighting to complete the album, Pollock and The Ocular Audio Experiment are finally self-releasing, Laughing Dreams. In step with the band’s DIY approach, the album was produced, written, performed, recorded, mixed and mastered by Pollock, as described by him, “in three bedrooms and a closet.”

Laughing Dreams is a nine song love-letter experiment to conventional psychedelic rock, folk, doom and pop; drawing on, aspiring toward and blending influences such as The Brian Jonestown Massacre, The Velvet Underground, High On Fire, Black Angels, Spacemen 3, Mercury Rev, BRMC, Cave In, The Warlocks, Echo & The Bunnymen and a long roster of others. According to Pollock, “The influences that color the album are all groups and individuals who have, for whatever reason, inspired me to try and give the best of myself toward what I like about music, with and by my own means. I just wanted to pay tribute to that spirit and try to do something great without being anybody special, cool or extraordinary.”

Special thanks to:

Molly Kimmerling, Andrew Fisher, Ed Craig, Brad Alderman, Nathaniel Bartrum, Bob Kropf, Brenda Withers, Torie Leigh, Jonathan Fielding, Stacy Fischer

Artwork by Torie Leigh

The Ocular Audio Experiment is an American musical project led and started by Alex Pollock. It was started in Somerville, Ma in 2010.

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