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Benedict Cumberbatch is also an admirer of the band.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eFifteen years on from their first concert, \u003cstrong\u003eBritish Sea Power\u003c\/strong\u003e continue to make bold, galvanising, idiosyncratic marks on the world. Racehorses and massive ocean-going yachts have been named after the band. London's National Maritime Museum recently opened a new £35m exhibition wing. Visitors are greeted by huge, sculpted quotations from Shakespeare and Coleridge – and a lyric from \u003cstrong\u003eBritish Sea Power\u003c\/strong\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eCD Box Set:\u003c\/strong\u003e 4 CDs\n    1) The extended 12 track version of the LP (retail CD, the blue and yellow vinyl are 10 track only)\n    2) 12 track instrumental LP\n    3) 12 track demos LP\n    4) 18 track alternative versions and rare tracks that did not make the LP, plus beer mat, sew on patch and 28 page full-color booklet with extensive sleeve notes and lots of artwork - both of these not on other formats all supplied in a lovely clamshell box\n    None of the music on CDs 2, 3, 4 is available anywhere else.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Golden Chariot Records","offers":[{"title":"Black | LP | x2","offer_id":50424671666507,"sku":"1132099","price":24.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"Blue | LP","offer_id":50424668717387,"sku":"1132100","price":22.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"CD | x4","offer_id":50424669241675,"sku":"1145101","price":59.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"CD","offer_id":50424668193099,"sku":"1132098","price":12.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0867\/1120\/6219\/files\/4c821e1f-e0b5-4feb-8e53-e86e696f5c42_thumbnail_4096.jpg?v=1726781281"},{"product_id":"man-of-aran-2","title":"Man Of Aran","description":"\u003cp\u003eRough Trade Records reissue Sea Power’s \u003ci\u003eMan Of Aran \u003c\/i\u003escore on vinyl for the first time.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn 2009 the band, then known as British Sea Power, were commissioned by the Edinburgh Film Festival to create their own soundtrack for the 1934 quasi-documentary, which they premiered by playing along live during a screening at the event. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA studio version of the album followed in May the same year, while more screening\/performances took place at the BFI in London and at cinemas in Brighton and Sheffield, while events were also staged on a series of islands, including Jersey, the Hebrides and a Norwegian islet in the Arctic Circle.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCharting the activities of fisherman based on a remote outcrop in mouth of Galway Bay in western Ireland, Robert J Flaherty’ Man Of Aran captured a disappearing way of life as Aran’s inhabitants battled daily against the elements to survive, something that chimed deeply with Sea Power’s own curiosity for the past and their urgent, environmentally-driven concerns for the future.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe resulting, mainly instrumental score, proved to be a true artistic collaboration that stretched across the decades, earning the group widespread acclaim upon its release, both for the music’s simpatico relationship with the original film and as a stand alone work in its own right. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDeclared by The Quietus on release as a “perfect symbiosis that should rightly be regarded as something of an understated classic,” Ireland’s Hot Press called it “Stunning... breath-taking” while NME encouraged listeners to “let it all gloriously wash over you.”\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFans will finally be able to experience that artistic and emotional depth on vinyl with this reissue.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDescribed by The Independent On Sunday as “chiming perfectly with BSP’s fascination with lost ways of life”, that band also found Man Of Aran resonated strongly with audiences when they performed the soundtrack live, producing the same, inspiring emotional responses from widely different demographics, which included a group of tear-stained Norwegian fishermen packed into in a 14th-century wooden church; an enthralled crowd of ravers at the UK’s Big Chill festival; and 2000 Irish ex-pats at Australia’s Perth International Film Festival. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIt is fitting then that \u003ci\u003eMan Of Aran\u003c\/i\u003e is now finally coming out on vinyl, where the format’s deep dive qualities with allow the impact of Sea Power’s music to be felt in full.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Rough Trade Records","offers":[{"title":"Yellow LP","offer_id":50484056949067,"sku":"2028505","price":34.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0867\/1120\/6219\/files\/British_Sea_Power-_Man_of_Aran_045207e9_thumbnail_4096.jpg?v=1727580042"},{"product_id":"everything-was-forever-2","title":"Everything Was Forever Record Store Day 2023 Picture Disc","description":"\u003cp\u003eThis is an RSD exclusive Picture Disc version of Sea Power's UK-charting album, featuring the beautiful painting on the cover of the original. 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