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`` Ocean '' is a birdsong by English group Goldfrapp from their seventh studio album Silver
Eye ( 2017 ) .It was released as the album 's first promotional individual on 10 March 2017
through Mute phonograph recording .The song was written and produced by Alison
Goldfrapp and William Sir Richard Owen Gregory VII , with extra production coming from
The Haxan Cloak and john Congleton .An electronic and synth-rock strain , `` Ocean '' marks
the getting even of Goldfrapp 's heavy use of synths in their music .Written in twain , the
words were described as dreary by several commentator .Critics also drew comparability
between `` Ocean '' and the works of early musicians and radical , such as Shirley Manson ,
Nine in Nails , and Depeche Mode .The song generated positive feedback from euphony
critics , with virtually of them acclaiming it for being emotional and dramatic .Others noted
that `` Ocean '' served as a unattackable record album finisher to Silver Eye .A remix of ``
Ocean '' was released on 21 May 2018 as the quartern single from Silver centre and the first
from the luxurious variant reissue of the album .It features Edgar Guest vocals from
Depeche modality frontman Dave Gahan .A euphony video for this interpretation of `` ocean
'' was also released and serves as a continuation to prior music videos created for Silver Eye
.== Background and release == '' Ocean '' was the first of two promotional singles to be
released from silver gray Eye , with the early being `` moon in Your Mouth '' which was
released two hebdomad later ; the Sung was distributed to digital retailers on 10 March
2017 through Mute phonograph recording following its initial unveiling on Billboard 's
prescribed site .It was written and produced by members Alison Goldfrapp and William
Owen Gregory with The Haxan Cloak and St. John the Apostle Congleton serving as
additional producers .While creating material for silver grey Eye , the twain had trouble
writing Song that they actually enjoyed ; Goldfrapp claimed that `` it always takes about
three month to save all the folderol out of your system before you get something you like
'' .Along with the announcement of `` sea '' as a promotional ace , slate for a promotional
tour for Silver Eye were made uncommitted for purchase , with show peg in EU and the
United States .== Composition and words == Speaking on behalf of its strait , Gary Graff
from billboard compared the electronic sound in `` Ocean '' to Goldfrapp 's previous albums
inkiness cherry ( 2003 ) and Supernature ( 2005 ) .Additionally , he felt that the track is
unlike their premature sack , Tales of uracil ( 2013 ) , in that it does not contain a `` pastoral
'' sound .Instead , the track contains `` heavy electronic beats '' and an emphasis on `` pulse-
pounding synths '' .Both Goldfrapp and Gregory acknowledged the proceeds to using synths
in their euphony , with the former claiming that it created a `` tougher phone '' to the track
overall .Categorizing the genre of the vocal as synth-rock , Alexa inner circle from angle
powder store claimed that she could picture Shirley Sir Patrick Manson singing the lyrics to
`` Ocean '' .Referring to its phone as `` dark '' and `` churning '' , Spin 's Anna Gaca noted the ``
pounding industrial core and [ the ] faintly sinister processing effect applied to [ her ] vocals
'' .Labelling the track as a ballad , Sean T. Collins from Pitchfork declared it the cri de coeur
on silver gray optic .He further explained that the lyric poem contain imagery portraying
nature and that the composition uses `` big , echoey race of strait '' in parliamentary law to
bring on an `` enveloping , absorbing , and suffocating '' sound .In a series of duet , Goldfrapp
sings `` I borrowed bones , I borrowed skin / To bring through me from the hell I 'm in , your
fantasise / And every time I think of you / I see the dark , I hear their hooves '' , which
registers a melodic theme of transformation , according to Chris white from
musicOMH .Towards the song 's end , she repeats `` they 're coming for you '' in a `` reedy
and distorted '' vox .The rail 's speech sound was compared to the full treatment of Depeche
Mode and ball club inch Nails by David Chiu of Consequence of Sound .Furthermore , Chris
Gerard , a author for PopMatters , compared the production 's phone to being
intoxicated .== Critical response == '' Ocean '' generally received praise from modern-day
medicine critics .Heather Phares from AllMusic applauded its role as the closing track on
Silver Eye for containing `` operatic dramatic play '' and an `` industrial crush '' .Similarly ,
Anna Gaca from whirl found it requisite for `` ocean '' to equal the record album 's final
exam track ; she wrote that it `` is so large and foreboding that is practically has to stop the
album , for fright of sinking it if were it to come out any earlier in the chronological
succession '' .Additionally , Gaca claimed that the listener could decode the outside
collaborators that contributed to both `` ocean '' and album track `` Zodiac Shirley Temple
Black '' .Calling it a `` rather spectacular close '' on the record album , Chiu from issue of
speech sound speculated that it may be Goldfrapp 's `` laboured and most emotional song ''
from their recently recorded textile .Listing `` Ocean '' as an example , The Guardian 's Alexis
Petridis said that the Haxan Cloak 's production on several cut on flatware centre seemed
like a `` conscious attack to commingle the two sign of Goldfrapp 's auditory sensation
'' .Because of this , she thought that the song `` prickle [ D ] with chilli malevolence '' .Olivia
Riggio , a writer for The Ithacan , complimented Goldfrapp 's vocal and the `` ominous and
herculean '' lyrics ; she stated that the song should in fact `` be called 'Odyssey ' because it is
an epic '' .However , Sam Steiger of Hot Press was more negative to the song , stating that
although it 's matter to , `` overall the sense experience is of treading weewee '' .== Single
reading == adenine remix of `` Ocean '' featuring guest vocals from English language
musician Dave Gahan was released as a digital download on 21 May 2018 .It is included on
the deluxe edition reissue of Silver middle , which was released on 6 July 2018 ; the remix
was released simultaneously with the pre-order for the album .Regarding the collaboration ,
the group issued a argument : `` Working with Dave Gahan on the new adaptation of 'Ocean '
had been a really honor for us as a isthmus . ''A promotional CD single of `` Ocean '' was also
released in a limited distribution by deaf-mute platter .Kory Grow from pealing Stone noted
how Gahan 's baritone vocals `` add [ ed ] a picayune warmth to the refrain '' .Noting
influence from synthpop , Stereogum 's Tom Breihan compared the remix to the works of
Gahan 's set Depeche mode , particularly birdcall from the group 's seventh studio
apartment album , lawbreaker ( 1990 ) .The remix received mostly prescribed reviews from
medicine critics .Lauren O'Neill from Noisey wrote in her clause that the remix was `` the
sort of collab that should consume happened often sooner '' .She went on to say that the
Goldfrapp and Depeche style seem to have chemistry , musically , which made the remix
successful .One year later , Kaye wrote an extended limited review of the new version : ``
Unsurprisingly , Gahan slips in comfortably , sitting in between the pounding electronics
and Alison Goldfrapp ’ s ain vocals like he was always meant to make up there . ''=== Music
video === ampere music video for the remix of `` Ocean '' was also released on 21 May
2018 .It was directed by Alison Goldfrapp and serves as an extension to the versatile music
videos created for Silver oculus , including previous single `` Anymore '' and `` Everything Is
Never Enough '' .Like the said videos , the blastoff of Goldfrapp singing were filmed in
Fuerteventura .She appears in a dress and veil while `` slow-motion scenes of horses appear
'' are shown as Gahan sings .He filmed his percentage while touring with Depeche Mode in
Madrid .== data track itemisation and data format == == address == == External tie-in ==
Goldfrapp – `` ocean '' ( functionary Audio ) on YouTube Goldfrapp – `` ocean '' exploit .