Oceanic Feelin'

VINYL FORMAT. Black Vatican (Chicago filmmaker Andy Roche and man-about-Baltimore Owen Gardner) return on Locust. It's the morning of the earth and here they are again with an ebullient summer mystifier of an album. Somnolent vocals a la Arthur Russell, striated droning guitar, primitive rhythm box bombast and churning, minimal synths make for a beautifully unrefined album of liminal pop song that rises, breaks and bubbles before washing out ashore like so much audible sea foam.