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Chiaroscuro by Ocean Alley
Chiaroscuro is an album by Ocean Alley, released in 2018. 4 songs from it have charted on rock radio countdowns, with 6 countdown appearances in total. The biggest is “Confidence”, on 3 lists and voted number one once.
Chiaroscuro, the second album from Ocean Alley, came out independently on 9 March 2018, and it's the Northern Beaches band's laid-back blend of psychedelic rock and reggae at its most assured. The grooves roll in slow and warm, the guitars shimmer and wobble like heat off the sand, and the songs take their time, which is exactly the point.
It's a record that swaggers without breaking a sweat. "Confidence" has a lazy, loping swagger, "Knees" and "Happy Sad" stretch out into dreamy sway, and "The Comedown" had already primed the audience a few months earlier. It entered the ARIA Albums Chart at number 15, the band took it around the country, it was nominated for Australian Album of the Year at the J Awards, and Triple J listeners voted it the second-best album of 2018.
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.
Songs from Chiaroscuro on radio countdowns
| # | Song | Strength | Lists | Best | #1s | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Confidence | 3 | #1 | 1 | 2018–2025 | |
| 2 | Knees | 1 | #10 | – | 2018 | |
| 3 | The Comedown | 1 | #48 | – | 2017 | |
| 4 | Happy Sad | 1 | #100 | – | 2018 |
Only songs that appear on at least one countdown are listed. Release data from MusicBrainz.