Embryonal Confinement

After seeing the tag labeled "tool" under this album, I thought to myself "This is going to be quite hard to come close to Tool." But, they did it.

The range of energy within each track makes the songs evolution seemless yet rememberable. The production value is on par, if not, better than many of the commercial bands out there today. This is a must have for anyone who enjoys hard rock.

My only complaint is that I need more than 4 tracks. I can't wait to hear what else Psychocean has in store for their fans.

Just as I said in my review for Opalescence [single version]
I really don't hear Tool ,Just Damn good music . I can't begin to guess what people would say if they didn't have the (getting very old) Tool standby to fall back on .
Perhaps I am wrong ,But I like to think that this band is original enough to not have that name dropped on them every time someone leaves a review ,or talks about them .
If I was an artist ,I don't think I would like always being compared to another band .( That's just me ) Even though the comparison may be a well intended compliment, After a while if those comparisons continue , the band will never be able to escape the "Band that sounds like @@@@ " Instead of the band named Psychocean.
Give these guys the respect that they deserve ,for making very good music worth listening to more than once or twice.
Again I am amazed with the incredibly good sounds
coming from my headphones.
Production values are very good . The music is simply awesome and refreshing . The vocals have stood out to me for everything that I have listened to by this band .
I really loved the washed out 'Pre' drumming effect at the end of "Magmatism" and carried into the beginning of "Birds Fly Deep Underneath The Water Expanse".
The last tracks vocals start out very differently compared with the other tracks on this EP. Sort of a not quite tuned in AM radio station. Then the music follows the vocals ( Like it )
Syncopation abounds in this tune. And it morphs like all real good progressive tunes do .
Interesting album art .
HIGHLY RECOMMENDED to anyone that like really good progressive hard rock .
Keep up the extremely good work guys .
Your music is a breath of fresh air in this spectrum of this genre.

I downloaded this album a while ago, so I must have heard it before (only, quickly scanning through the tracks), because I only download albums I like. But listening to this album at the very moment, I ask myself why it took so long before I started listening to such an excellent album.
This really is a great sounding album. The voice reminds me of Chris Cornell sometimes. No further comments. Except this: when can we expect the successor? After all, this album is released 2 years ago.

Finding this was a nice surprise- a lot of effort here, from concept to execution, this album is pretty solid.
The comparison to Tool could work both for good and bad, some people might hear this as a "copy cat" band, but I think there is a lot of originality here, which becomes more apparent on further listenings- I look forward to further releases to see how they progress!

but not really, and that's what i like about it...the biggest similarities lie in the vocals and the drumming, but even those aspects tend to be on the original side...there is a progressive metalcore kind of feel to it, and that was a welcome surprise...please record/release more music!