{"id":32763,"date":"2019-11-06T12:15:47","date_gmt":"2019-11-06T17:15:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cultureaddicts.com\/?p=32763"},"modified":"2019-11-03T06:36:07","modified_gmt":"2019-11-03T11:36:07","slug":"the-ocular-audio-experiment-share-video-for-rain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/cultureaddicts.com\/?p=32763","title":{"rendered":"The Ocular Audio Experiment share video for \u2018Rain\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Do-it-yourselfer, Alex Pollock and his psych-rock outfit, The Ocular Audio Experiment, have returned with a new video for the title track of his upcoming album,\u00a0\u2018Rain\u2019. Watch the video clip via YouTube below.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-youtube wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/lGm5qmWQHw4?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-CA&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The album was self-produced, written, performed, recorded, mixed and mastered by Pollock from his home apartment in Somerville, Massachusetts.\u00a0During the creation of\u00a0\u2018Rain,\u2019 Pollock&#8217;s mother unexpectedly fell ill and passed away. While\u00a0\u2018Rain\u2019\u00a0is in some ways an expression of that change, it\u00a0is also aspires to belong to everyone, beyond a singular, defining experience.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u2018Rain\u2019 is a new, ambitious and exciting stage in the evolution of The Ocular Audio Experiment, colored lovingly with influences like, The Brian Jonestown Massacre, True Widow, Mercury Rev, Spacemen 3, BRMC, Black Angels, Psychic Ills and others. It is\u00a0expected to be self-released in full this fall.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\"><p>Do-it-yourselfer, Alex Pollock and his psych-rock outfit, The Ocular Audio Experiment, have returned with a new video for the title track of his upcoming album,\u00a0\u2018Rain\u2019. <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"http:\/\/cultureaddicts.com\/?p=32763\" title=\"The Ocular Audio Experiment share video for \u2018Rain\u2019\">[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":32764,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"On Culture Addicts: The Ocular Audio Experiment share video for \u2018Rain\u2019","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"_wpas_customize_per_network":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[22,23,28,29,5812],"tags":[8669,4185],"class_list":["post-32763","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-guitar-rock","category-indie","category-music","category-music-video","category-shoegaze","tag-rain","tag-the-ocular-audio-experiment"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/cultureaddicts.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/523BABAC-7AD0-47B4-8E5E-A9988B30279A.jpeg?fit=640%2C640","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2B2TV-8wr","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":19453,"url":"http:\/\/cultureaddicts.com\/?p=19453","url_meta":{"origin":32763,"position":0},"title":"The Ocular Audio Experiment release new track &#8216;Alive&#8217;","author":"cultureaddicts","date":"February 1, 2016","format":false,"excerpt":"Alex Pollock of The Ocular Audio Experiment has kept himself busy since the band's multi-release year of 2012 (The Witch's Whispering Tomes Parts 1, 2, and\u00a0Ghoul). 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