Home & Minor

Home & Minor is an EP by Manchester-based alternative rock band Oceansize, released on 26 October 2009 on Superball Music. The release is limited to 3000 copies.^[3] Regarding the EP, vocalist and guitarist Mike Vennart states, "we thought we’d try and make a mini-album of more reserved songs that have something in common with each other. It's our acoustic-like record, only there are no acoustic instruments and it’s not an album!"^[4]

Home and Minor
EP by Oceansize
Released	26 October 2009
Recorded	Summer 2009 (completed 12 August)
Genre	New prog, post-rock, indie rock, experimental rock
Label	Superball Music
Producer	Oceansize
Oceansize chronology
Frames (2007) Home and Minor (2009) Self Preserved While the Bodies Float Up (2010)

Professional ratings

Review scores
Source	Rating
Rock Sound	8/10[1]
Shred News	10/10[2]

Background and information

According to the band, the EP is^[5]

a collection of our more 'settled' numbers. More reserved, with not a distortion pedal in sight, this lovely EP is a realisation of a plan that's been kicking around our collective brains since before we were signed in 2002. Where in the past we've crowbarred-in every single dynamic, idea and style we could think of into a record, we thought it best this time to present a more thematic and cohesive collection, so's not to disrupt the more fainted-hearted listener from their blub-induced slumber. Still, it covers plenty of ground, and features a fair few Oceansize firsts such as trumpets, pedal-steel guitar as well as a bit of pumping techno and some additional vocals from Kate Ray. It is also the first Oceansize record to be made in our own as-yet-unnamed studio in Manchester.

In an interview with Rock Sound, Vennart elaborated on the stylistic approach of the record, describing the track "Legal Teens" as "a weird, sci-fi, cocktail tune."^[4]

Track listing

Music by Oceansize. Lyrics by Mike Vennart.

1. "Legal Teens" - 4:28
2. "Getting Where Water Cannot" - 5:24
3. "Monodrones" - 2:34
4. "Home & Minor" - 8:10
5. "Didnaeland" - 3:22
6. "The Strand" - 8:04

Personnel

The following people contributed to Home & Minor:^[6]

Oceansize Steve Durose - guitar, backing vocals Richard "Gambler" Ingram - guitar, keyboards Mark Heron - drums, percussion Steven Hodson - bass, keyboards Mike Vennart - lead vocals, guitar Additional musicians Tom Knott - trumpet Norman McLeod - pedal steel guitar Kate Ray - vocals

Recording personnel Oceansize - recording, producer Chris Sheldon - mixing Sean Magee - mastering Artwork Steven Hodson - artwork, layout Adam Crosby - cover photograph

References

1. Rock Sound review
2. Shred News review
3. "Twitter / Oceansize: Just found out that the ne". Twitter.com. 28 October 2009. Retrieved 22 February 2012.
4. "Oceansize | News | Rock Sound". Rocksound.tv. Retrieved 22 February 2012.
5. Lindsay, Andrew. "Oceansize announce 'Home and Minor' EP". stereokill.net. Archived from the original on 22 August 2009. Retrieved 22 February 2012.
6. Home & Miner liner notes.