Ocean Songs

Rolling Stone (5/14/98, p.57) - 3.5 Stars (out of 5) - "...Because OCEAN SONGS moves like sweet lava...it is easy to overlook the emotional, transportive force of Dirty Three's instrumental, scorched cabaret blues....pulls you into its deep, blue mood, lifts you out and leaves you cleansed."
New Musical Express (3/28/98, p.40) - 8 (out of 10) - "...OCEAN SONGS...further serves to underline their unique talent for making furiously emotional music....the songs here are submerged in quiet repetition and crashing melancholy..."
Entertainment Weekly (4/3/98, p.97) - "...This trio's impressionistic instrumental reveries are positively mesmerizing....it's really all about the way violinist Warren Ellis draws out gorgeous, droning melody lines while guitarist Mick Turner and drummer Jim White fill in the blanks behind him."
- Rating: A-
Option (5-6/98, p.83) - "...[violinist Warren Ellis] can draw you into his world with or without his fiddle..."