Building on the bones of their 2006 debut, Shadows Rise, Travel by Sea return Spring of 2008 with their sophomore LP Days of My Escape. Once again crafted over the wire - separated by the wilderness between California and Colorado - Travel by Sea's Kyle Kersten and Brian Kraft use the distance to their advantage. The space and airiness of the opening notes put the wheels in a slow motion descent down the San Diego highway, setting off an eleven song post-folk soundscape replete with hopeful melancholy and longing melodies. From pulsed hush to sparse country singe, Kraft provides a seemingly limitless sonic and instrumental palette of which to augment Kersten's vocal vignettes. The Broken West's Dan Iead and Pink Nasty guest.
"(Like) the sun going down on a hot summer night. It's sad and moody, hopeful and beautiful, and the subtleness of its first impression is not something to take lightly"
- The Tripwire
"Steeped in wine of well-aged tradition… clothed in whispers and reverb and strummed by delayed guitars that echo like voices in a canyon."
- Coke Machine Glow
"Piecing together the hushed, deceptively complex songs that make up the album via the internet, which makes it all the more remarkable."
- Gorilla vs Bear
"An atmospheric and organic gallery of moody and rootsy vignettes…likened to the broody yet dulcet musings of similar artists like Jason Molina, Will Johnson and Sam Beam"
- Miles of Music
"Their sound embodies filled up ashtrays, long drives across the desert, despair and recollection – yet also a glimmer of hope, a knot at the end of your rope."
- Muzzle of Bees
"The beauty of technology has made this record, shadows rise, possible. it doesnt suffer from sounding cold or trapped, but sounds completely full of life. fans of great lake swimmers, iron and wine, and buckner should take note."
- Captains Dead
"(A) melancholy soundtrack to a slow-motion movie of lost loves and regrets."
- www.playbsides.com
"No ordinary post-folk outfit, Travel by Sea's music explores an aural countryside far past the traditional confines of their predecessors. While tales of travel and distance have long been songwriting mainstays for generations, Travel by Sea builds their vivid, spacious music on a new frontier: The ability to craft songs from afar."
- Aquarium Drunkard