Emeralds - Does It Look Like I'm Here? Release:Does It Look Like I'm Here? Ghostly Int'l and the dramatic suspense in

and the dramatic suspense in the individual movements continue to make for compelling listening even today

A singular devotion to surf guitar music became a way of life for them and they considered it to be the only artform profound enough to truly express the passion in man's soul

so maybe OXZ means "going beyond all usual standards

Dunbar hit a creative peak here that is emphatically maintained elsewhere on the album

Emeralds - Does It Look Like I'm Here? Release:Does It Look Like I'm Here? Ghostly Int'l and the dramatic suspense inIn the late 2000s a sprawling catalog of what is now genre defining music was emanating from an unlikely place. Cleveland, Ohio has a broad reputation for many things, but in the aughts, psyche expanding Kosmische wasn't necessarily Cleveland's calling card until Emeralds. The trio of John Elliott, Steve Hauschildt, and Mark McGuire had released a profusion of limited run cassettes, CD Rs, and vinyl titles that had been passed around basement shows