Seawind of Battery - East Coast Cosmic Dreamer (Black Vinyl)

Following up Seawind of Battery’s stellar debut album, Clockwatching, wasn’t going to be an easy task, but with East Coast Cosmic Dreamscaper, Mike Horn met that challenge and delivered an album rich with grace, soul and even cheer. On East Coast Cosmic Dreamscaper, you are treated to guitar-oriented sound baths that are certainly akin to the first LP, yet some tracks diverge from Horn’s earlier work through the addition of electro dance beats, like on the pulsing “New Moon,” while others, like “Maze of Roses,” veer off into a more lush, psychedelicized country vein. The latter of these two features a dense, prismatic atmosphere of strings, partially thanks to the lap steel provided by Jarrod Annis, of whom became an official Seawind member after he started backing Horn up at live appearances back in late ’22.