Oceanography is a lyrically driven indie-rock project from San Francisco Bay Area native Brian Kelly. With a deceptively powerful voice, Kelly layers melodies over guitar, keys and drums for a sound that’s been compared to Damien Jurado and Jim James — though there are also threads of Echo & the Bunnymen and an obvious reverence for Tom Petty. His writing, meanwhile, turns a literary eye for detail on both the Pacific coastline and his own unpredictable edges, arriving honestly at moments of catharsis and beauty amid the bleak and mundane. 

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