The Corrupting Sea – Reflections
8.23.18 by Ryan Masteller

It might be the “Chariots of Fire” vibes I’m getting from track 1, “Triumph” (what’s in a name?), but I’m feeling “Reflections” by the Corrupting Sea right off the bat. “Chariots of Fire” was one of those films your parents likely made you watch when you were growing up. Was it just me? Who knows – it taught me about perseverance and hard work and fighting against adversity and stuff, and it was about the Olympics. Big emotions, big stakes. I was such a jock.

Being an athlete has its perks, but it also has its drawbacks. By nature, the athlete internalizes struggle and uses it as fuel for performance. As the Corrupting Sea, Jason T. Lamoreaux has also internalized struggle, but instead of manifesting it on the playing field, he’s channeled it through his own creativity, an outlet that’s seen its realization in multiple cassette tapes, most recently in “Reflections.” It doesn’t all sound like “Chariots of Fire,” and in fact it deviates down many nostalgic paths (lengthy album centerpieces “Flooded Gnosis,” “Calm,” and “Uninterrupted Solipsis” are particularly meditative). But in the end, the mind is where life is, where the heavy lifting happens, where the real personal workout begins.

Speaking of heavy lifting – look, this is gnawing at me. I can bench press more than Mike Haley. I can curl more than Dave Doyen. I can squat more than Joe B. It’s true fact, and the quicker we can understand all this, the more honest with each other we can all be: I am stronger, more muscular than at least two-thirds of Tabs Out Podcast put together, maybe even all three.

Get pumped mentally otherwise with the Corrupting Sea’s “Reflections,” edition of fifty, out NOW on Somewherecold Records.