Victory at Sea

Vocalist/guitarist Mona Elliott, bassist Mel Lederman, and drummer Christina Documents started Victory in Ocean in 1996 from what Elliott identifies as “emotions of rock which were unable to end up being controlled.” Elliott got previously performed in noise rock and roll clothing Spore, Lederman in indie rock-band Sugars Bitch, and Documents in space rock and roll group the Swirlies. Collectively, they got cues from slowcore rings like Codeine and Shipping and delivery News and formed areas of those rings into their personal tossing and turning design. After experimenting the Boston region in early 1996, Triumph at Ocean cut their debut solitary, Snow, for Villa Villakula information. While the music group was touring with organizations such as for example June of 44, they finished up carrying out many displays in Baltimore, MD. Documents had went to Berklee in Boston with Adam Cooke, a drummer for Baltimore music group Science Kit. Both groups finished up playing displays collectively. Jeffrey Alexander, who was simply an associate of Science Package, was also who owns the Magic Attention Singles imprint. He loved Victory at Ocean and asked these to cut an individual for the label. Triumph at Sea decided, and in January 1998, the music group released their second solitary. Victory at Ocean was never in fact agreed upon to Magic Eyes Singles, because of the fact which the label managed to get a point never to have a genuine roster of groupings. Instead, Alexander just released information by rings that he enjoyed. Victory at Ocean came back to Villa Villakula to record their five-song EP Easier Than Surviving in 1999. Dischord captured wind from the trio and agreed upon them with their subsidiary Slowdime afterwards that calendar year. The music group immediately documented and released their initial full-length The Dark IS MERELY the night time that September. At the start of 2000, Data files left Success at Ocean and was changed by Fin Moore, who acquired formerly performed drums for Boston groupings Robots and Pizza. A brief tour checking for Shipping Information followed Moore’s entry in to the group. Quickly thereafter, Kimchee Information’ co-owner Andy Hong, who was simply planned to record Success at Sea’s second full-length, contacted them about performing a joint tour with Kimchee Information music group Helms. Success at Sea decided to the tour, along with a divide EP was documented with Helms to market the outing. The bleak but participating Carousel found its way to 2001, signaling a big change within their songwriting that emphasized their more and more better melodies. After Carl Eklof became their brand-new drummer, the music group followed that work with THE NICE Evening in 2002. Success at Sea discovered a new house at Gern Blandsten, who released Thoughts Fade in fall of 2004.