Name: Oceans of Time
Brand: Gloria De Oliveira and Dean Hurley

Bonus disc

Bonus disc: No

Catalogue number

SBR311LPC3

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Colour

Purple

Colour details

Lavender Swirl

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Discogs ID

Format multiplier

Download code

Download code: No

Rough Trade Exclusive

Rough Trade Exclusive: No

Extended format

Extended format: Yes

Format detail

Format Music GB

Limited edition

Release date

2022-09-16

Signed copies

Signed copies: No

Supplier GB

Tax rate GB

Standard:20

UPC / Barcode

0843563151471

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Total Cap

1 / Extended format: Yes / LP / Rough Trade Exclusive: No / Signed copies: No / purple

SBR311CD

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Extended format: No

0843563151488

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1 / CD / Extended format: No / Rough Trade Exclusive: No / Signed copies: No

SBR311LP

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Black

084356315133414.5

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1 / Extended format: No / LP / Rough Trade Exclusive: No / Signed copies: No / black

Artist

Gloria De Oliveira and Dean Hurley

Genre GB

Alternative / Modern

Label GB

Sacred Bones Records

Explore the hauntingly beautiful world of Sacred Bones Records—home to boundary-pushing artists who redefine the edges of sound. From eerie soundscapes to experimental anthems, this collection showcases the label’s most captivating releases. Dive into the dark and discover your next obsession today!

Growing out of a pen pal style correspondence that took place over the course of a year, separated by the Atlantic Ocean, Gloria de Oliveira and Dean Hurley passed thoughts and music back and forth that would eventually form their collaborative album, Oceans of Time. The result is an aural tapestry of that exchange: woven from conceptual threads of the celestial within, mortality and the realm beyond stars.

The duo’s partnership is an effortless merge, yet it’s the steady presence of de Oliveira’s vocals that endows the record with itssense of potency. Throughout the album, there is an innate understanding of how a lyric across a chordal color can sharpen an emotional truth. Much like a sunbeam that pierces a spiderweb to reveal its intricacy, her lyric and melody are purposely aimed in order to illuminate the truths deep within oneself... a process that ties us all to the universal. 

Frequent David Lynch collaborator Dean Hurley sets the tonal and sonic landscape of each track on the album, lending a layered ether that envelops, frames and holds de Oliveira’s vocals. With its impressionistic synths, shimmering guitars, and ethereal sonics, Oceans of Time at moments recalls the foundational dreampop of 4AD acts like Cocteau Twins and Lush. The album feels especially attuned to the connections between the physical and transcendental realms, and the best dreampop has a way of making the veil between two worlds feel just a little bit thinner.

Oceans of Time is a key that has the power to release its listener from the handcuffs of reality, however briefly...