Ours by Blue Navy
"Top 150 Shoegaze Albums of 2017" - Shoegazer Alive
"The Best of 2017 in Shoegazer Alive - May - Top 30 Shoegazer Albums/EPs - Rank #10" - Shoegazer Alive
"As a whole, 'Ours' is a welcome follow-up to last year’s 'Mine'. It will be interesting to see where Blue Navy can go with the style that 'Mine' and 'Ours' have developed." - Mike Marlow, KnowMoreMusic
"Dryzal, a Johnstown-area teenager, shows continued musical growth with "Ours". That goes for his songwriting, but even more notably for his production chops. This is a slick piece of music." - Bruce Siwy, Our Town Amped
"There is a lot to appreciate here... Dryzal is a talented artist with a boatload of potential. I like where his head's at and am excited to hear his evolution. Recommended." - Dan Weston, Divide and Conquer
*Featured on The Sirens Sound*
*Featured on WCAL & Highwire Daze Radio*
"Ours" is Blue Navy's sophomore LP - another concept album that covers topics such as heartbreak, loss, and memories. Along with introspective, confessional lyrics, "Ours" contains balanced elements of stripped-down acoustic folk, as well as dense layers of lush, ethereal, and reverberated ambient soundscapes. "Ours" is an incredibly melancholic yet breathtaking release; "music du jour for the disaffected and misunderstood."
Here it is, guys; my second Blue Navy record. This album was the direct result of the pain and sadness that I had felt after the loss of a very meaningful relationship. Ultimately, the idea of this album spontaneously came in mid-January - what we had, and what could have been, is, and was, ours. I recorded and written this album simultaneously; it is a much more "stream-of-consciousness" album than "Mine." With senior year of high school in the way, making this album and finding time to work on it was incredibly difficult. However, I could not have been prouder of the end result, and I hope that it does you well. Thank you for listening.
- Jake
Tracklist
| 1. | Grace | 3:47 |
| 2. | October Through | 8:04 |
| 3. | Reflection I | 6:28 |
| 4. | Goodnight Sweet February | 10:39 |
| 5. | Without | 2:31 |
| 6. | A Pin of Leaves | 8:35 |
| 7. | Fading | 4:40 |
| 8. | Reflection II | 7:14 |
Credits
This album was written, as well as recorded and mixed at home with GarageBand and Sony Vegas, between January-April 2017.
Remixed & remastered in 2020.
© Prodigious Productions, 2017/2020.
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Blue Navy is the former slowcore alias of Pennsylvania singer-songwriter Jake Dryzal. Influenced by ambient, ethereal wave, and post-rock, Blue Navy's album trilogy (2016's "Mine", 2017's "Ours", and 2020's "Yours") features reverb-drenched guitar melodies and dense synthesizer pads, guiding Dryzal's somber lyricism. Jake currently records under the folk rock pseudonym Great American Racer.