Underrated Albums - "The Breastroke"

The waters on the coast feel so warm.
Yet the currents makes quite hard to swim in.
Though the whirlpools, it sinks into a lovely daydream.

Coaltar of the Deepers were founded in Tokyo during the spring of 1991, diving in the growing shoegazing scene in Japan, but were also influenced by other musical genres such as thrash metal and alternative music. Led by the cavalier frontmen Narasaki, they released a hand full of EPs that featured quite talented and creative new songs that seemed to separate themselves then the actual shoegazing bands, but gained very limited recognition. In 1994, after signing onto a major label, Victor Records, the Deepers were able to release their first record, "The Visitors of Deepspace" which featured a thrash metal cover of the Cure's "Killing an Arab" and a few songs that would end up on "The Breastroke" but after lukewarm reviews but a growing cult following, the Deepers disappeared beneath the music scene for three years. Between these years, came numerous lineup changes and a misguided sense of no direction or motivation. Out of the ashes in '97, they released their first EP in years, "Cat EP" and "Submerge," an album full of remixes, rare and new songs. In '98, they release a best of album, a showcase if you will, if there best work up until then, entitled, "The Breastroke." In the years of slow progress, this gives way to the biggest waves in the music waves, something beyond shoegaze or just in the Japanese music scene; a masterpiece for the ages, featuring there strongest points of their slow music prowess. With a few favourite pieces such as 'Blink' and 'Cell,' they have created an array of bold and unconflicted pieces of rock music that has slowly risen beneath the music world. To this day, their influence is scattered among many fans both in the Japanese world and Western world, as it's sounds reverbs and echoes among only the few willing to dive off the deep end.