The Offshore Electric Company

Hailing from Kingston, Ontario, the boys in The Offshore Electric Company are pumped about releasing their new self titled EP. It's a very impressive effort for a first release, that's for sure. The band has only been around for about a year, and clearly their hard work over the past year has paid off. The OEC consists of Adam Cohen (drums), Julian Lepinski (Guitar, Vocals), Erik Akaoka (Guitar, Vocals) and Mike Rooke on bass. The album opens with a pretty intense rocker entitled Seven Hours Is A Long Time which leads the listener to believe that the band is heading in a certain direction. That deception is a welcome relief in the sense that I don't personally enjoy an album that starts a certain way, and continues to provide a series of songs that all sound the same as track one, only less satisfying. OEC do stick to a certain style of 90's influenced emotional indie rock, but they throw in enough eclecticism to keep things interesting. The aforementioned Seven Hours.. is a fist pumping anthemic rocker, while Satellites is a beautiful almost-ballad, reminding me a bit of Clarity-era Jimmy Eat World. The album spaces things out with a few piano based interludes, and concludes with a great epic song called Freedom. The lyrics are perhaps a tad contrived, but musically, the sound is solid. Keep your eyes open for a few local dates coming soon.

Download: A Year Spent Underwater mp3

Myspace: The Offshore Electric Company
Purchase: There are details on how to pick up their EP here.