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I was visiting a friend in Omaha and shopping in a Boarders. They were playing White Water, White Bloom in the store. The music grabbed me the first time I heard it! It just made me feel good, the chord progressions, arrangements, it all just hits you at level you can't quite describe. There are so many sounds reminiscent of bands gone by, but this album is anything but rehash of songs of yesteryear. It is somehow familiar like a well fitting pair of jeans yet new with unexpected rifts and bridges. I hate to compare Sea Wolf to other bands because they are uniquely themselves, yet I hear cues that take me back to band I loved growing up. I'm quite diverse in my musical likes, so some bands I might mention might seem strange in the same sentence. I'll say this much, the style of this album does take a cue from the Beatles (only in the broadest sense) and thusly have some qualities found in some of the great bands that have embraced this direction before. OK, who do they remind me of? REM a bit in musical style, Alex Church has a vocal style that, at times. Sounds a lot like Tom Petty. Some parts of the arrangements and production made me also think a little of the Moody Blues and ELO. Not to say that this band is a knock off of any of the aforementioned and Alex if you ever read this please don't get mad as I am not trying to label you and your sound. Sea Wolf may remind me a bit of some of these other great bands, but they bring it al together in a solid, organic, down to earth style that is uniquely Sea Wolf. Pick up a copy of this album, you will not regret it!