Open Ocean
Open Ocean makes dreamy, surf-pop classics awash in reverb and mystery. The Brooklyn-based all-female quartet (singer-bassist Jill Bradshaw, guitarist Sarah Kuhn, keyboardist Susan Domelsmith, and drummer Eviana Hartman) first got together in early 2009, intertwining elements of psychedelic rock, shoegaze, synth sounds, and even a sprinkling of tropicalia into a dreamy, textured whole.