Oceans by Principe Valiente

After an outstanding self-titled debut album in 2011 and the breathtaking "Choirs Of Blessed Youth" in 2014, the Swedish post punk / shoegaze band lead by Fernando Honorato, true to their vision, continues to carve out its own unique musical path. Drawing inspiration from ambient experimentalists like Cocteau Twins, 80's sci-fi soundtracks as well as exuberant vocalists like Bowie and Kate Bush, PRINCIPE VALIENTE ventured deeper into the sonic landscapes of their minds.

The intensity of the athmospheric sound and the interplay of melodic guitar strings, the dark drifting drums, rhythmic bass lines and above all the warm, emotional voice of the singer, have remained. The listener is captured in a mixture of longing and loneliness, which is fluently and hypnotically directed. Calm pieces alternate with energetic compositions, such as the recently released single "Strangers In The Night", and give the album a strong note of ambivalence.

With their third work "Oceans", the band has created another alluring world with "human, all too human" lyrics and phantasmagorical soundscapes. Cool, yet impassioned and loaded with sweet anxiety, PRINCIPE VALIENTE have managed to make an irresistibly beautiful and intense continuation of what was started in the previous two albums.

"Oceans" was partly recorded by the producer Martin Ehrencrona (Les Big Byrd), and partly in various basements and art school lobbies around their hometown Stockholm, Sweden. The combination of innovative and inspired material makes for an invigorating listen as it is difficult to pinpoint in regard to genre.

"Oceans" will be released on May 12th, 2017 on CD and as a download by afmusic, and as a limited Vinyl edition by Manic Depression Records.

Tracklist

1.	Wildest Flowers	4:57

2.	When I Learned To Crawl	3:44

3.	Strangers In The Night	4:51

4.	Untouchable	6:10

5.	Running Juveniles	5:15

6.	No Time	4:29

7.	The Reason Why	6:12

8.	Monsters Of The Sea	7:20

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Credits

released May 12, 2017

Recorded in Stockholm at The Boiler Room
and the Royal Institute of Art.

Drums recorded by Martin Ehrencrona at Studio Cobra

Produced and mixed by Jimmy Ottosson & Principe Valiente
Mastered by Linus Giertta
Artwork by Jimmy Ottosson
Cover photo by Erik Undéhn

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