Pop Rock, Powerpop, Pop Punk | Toronto, Ontario, Canada
The Ocean Buried is a five-piece powerpop group made up of lead singer Tim Stead (originally from Owen Sound), guitarist Kyle Wallace (originally from Quebec), bassist Jeremy Hebert, drummer Luke van den Kroonenberg, and guitarist Michael Stewart (all originally from Oshawa).
Tim Stead went on to start the band The Scenic Sound.
The tale of this band began with trips to the mall for Van and Stewart. "One day I was in the mall and I saw Mike and I asked him ‘hey man do you want to take some band pictures,'" chuckled Van who added, "and Mike said to me, he says 'dude we don’t even have a band or anything?'" After that Stewart and Van started playing together. Van then extended an offer to bassist Hebert. "I invited Jeremy to come out and jam with us and then we jammed for awhile and then eventually we found Tim and Kyle and we just knew we loved each other," he said.
The Ocean Buried worked both with producers Murray Daigle (in the summer of 2008) as well as Jamie K. (in late October-November 2008) according to Stead. The end result was their freshman release, an EP entitled, "Can You Spill a Secret?" Stead talked about how every song is written totally differently before going over the opinions. "Sometimes somebody will come to the band with a rift and we’ll just develop everything around it, in terms of lyrics (and) melody. Sometimes we’ll record the song and I’ll take it home and I’ll write lyrics and melodies to it. Sometimes I’ll have a skeleton idea for what I think a song could sound like with lyrics and melodies that I’ve written and will build it around it." Stead points out that, "it genuinely is a team effort, it’s not directed by one person at anytime."
The Ocean Buried count The Rocket Summer and Mayday Parade amongst their inspirations explained Stead, who noted that the group have also been motivated by "a lot of bands that are in our genre. We listen to heavier stuff and we listen to lighter stuff and so it’s sort of a combination of everything," he said admitting that the group is "not necessarily trying to reinvent the wheel with our music, but I think we try and show our respect and love for the bands that influenced us by having elements of their stuff in what we do." Stead explained the group’s "positive vibe" and how it affects them. "Our Myspace is very upbeat and poppy. We try and have fun. If we’re going to be doing stuff that is challenging …we want to have fun while we're doing it and so for that we try to have fun with what we do and that translates into our records I think." He notes that the group having gotten posts from fans, saying their songs helped them through stuff is what drives him to want to play more, write more, and do more shows.
The Ocean Buried has made an appearance in AP Magazine, played Warped Tour 2009 (Toronto stop), appeared on City TV's Breakfast Television, appeared on MuchMusic's disBAND, and hit as high as number 4 on the Myspace Canada charts for unsigned powerpop.
"With dispositions nearly as sunny as their bouncy pop, The Ocean Buried have used an appearance on Canada's MuchMusic, a dedicated online following and an EP loaded with catchy tunes to build their name throughout the country..."
- Alternative Press, October 2009
*RELEASES*
Album: Can You Spill a Secret? - EP
Year: 2009
Quality: FLAC
Tracks:
01. Can You Spill a Secret?
02. Whisper These Words
03. Falling Asleep at the Wheel
04. Stomach Butterflies
05. Honestly Honest
06. Believe in Me
07. Whisper These Words (Remix)
Album: Electric Love - EP
Year: 2010
Quality: FLAC
Tracks:
01. Skeletons
02. Earthquake
03. Radiation
04. Your Love's Electric
05. Summer Soundtrack
06. It's Up to You
07. Whisper These Words
If you have any other lost music, artwork, or information about this band not preserved here or in better quality (we count iTunes m4a files as better quality than mp3 in most cases) send us an email: themyspacedumpster@gmail.com
