British Sea Power

The shores may be awash with post-punk revival acts, but B.S.P. downplay the Joy Division factor in favor of the windswept romanticism found on Echo & the Bunnymen's Ocean Rain and the Smiths' "That Joke Isn't Funny Anymore." (We won't bring up, gulp, the Railway Children.) Don't know the references, but like Interpol, Franz Ferdinand and the Dears? Listen now.

British Sea Power are famed for playing shows in World War I uniforms and decorating the
stage with foliage and stuffed owls. But that doesn't begin to prepare you for how
eccentric and majestic they sound. These five young yeomen from Brighton, England,
perfect their Bowie-style balladry on Open Season. They ditch the noise experiments that
dotted their 2003 debut, The Decline of British Sea Power. Instead, they twist th... More >