We can’t get enough of The Sea The Sea’s new single “A Thousand Years” from their new Album Stumbling Home coming 8/28. We have enjoyed listening carefully to every second of this record and to be honest, it’s one of the best Folk songs we have ever heard! The acoustic guitar melodies are gentle and so beautiful. The production work is professional and is polished very well. Their voices are charming and their harmonies are so beautiful. The lyrics are catchy and so original, written and chosen very well. This song is a piece of art and it’s going to leave you stuck on repeat for a long time.
This song came out of a “cut out” exercise we use sometimes to generate ideas, where we cut out random words from old paperbacks and re-shape them into original lines. It’s something we learned at a songwriting retreat called Crooked Crow way out in west TX in the middle of the desert right on the border of Mexico. No cell service. No internet. It’s beautiful. It’s quiet. At night out there we often found ourselves under an unimaginable blanket of stars, just listening to the silence. Listening to nothing. It sounded thousands of years old. A clear and peaceful sound. That deep sense of stillness has become a portal for me. And the song has become a reminder, when I get swallowed up in the din of it all, all the minutiae, the paperwork, all the noise, or even in the dizzying joys. A reminder to stop, take a sec, be out there in the stillness, where it’s always beautiful. Always has been and always will be. If I can get there then clarity will follow. Sometimes it’s music that gets us there, sometimes it’s a conversation, sometimes its just quiet.
ABOUT THE DUO:
THE SEA THE SEA is an Upstate New York based indie folk-pop duo-band featuring what Huffington Post calls, “Two of the loveliest male-female voices you might ever hear this or any other year.” Their 2014 debut release, Love We Are We Love, received praise from NPR, American Songwriter, and No Depression, among others, gathering over 15 million streams on Spotify. The animated video for their song “Waiting” sparked viral interest including Buzzfeed, Pitchfork, and inclusion at the international TED 2015 conference. Mountain Stage host Larry Groce calls them “ready to take their place among the best young male/female duos now performing.” Their 2016 release, the six-song EP In the Altogether, earned features by Apple Music including “Best of the Week” and “A-List Singer/Songwriter.” Recently, Paste Music / Daytrotter described the band as “defined by their infallible vocal harmonies and their unconventional song arrangements. The Sea The Sea is a pop band only in their melodic infectiousness—otherwise they are at their best when subverting conventions.”
