From the Forest to the Sea is the fifth full-length recording by Southeast Engine

Southeast Engine

Southeast Engine is an indie-folk-rock band from Athens, Ohio. With the help of The Wrens, the band signed with Misra Records in 2007 and released their first internationally distributed album, "A Wheel Within A Wheel," later that year...

, released in 2009 on Misra Records

Misra Records

Misra Records is an independent record label run out of Durham, North Carolina with branch offices in Washington D.C., Seattle, Washington, and Los Angeles, California....

. The band recorded the album almost entirely live to analog tape in the abandoned auditorium of a middle school from the 19th century.

The album has been met mostly with critical praise. Review collation website Metacritic

Metacritic

Metacritic.com is a website that collates reviews of music albums, games, movies, TV shows and DVDs. For each product, a numerical score from each review is obtained and the total is averaged. An excerpt of each review is provided along with a hyperlink to the source. Three colour codes of Green,...

currently has From the Forest to the Sea listed at a weighted average of 84 percent.

This was the last album to feature keyboardist Michael Lachman; he was replaced by multi-instrumentalist Billy Matheny after his departure.

Track listing

1. "The Forest Pt. I" – 3:02
2. "The Forest Pt. II" – 3:23
3. "The Forest Pt. III" – 3:09
4. "Law-Abiding Citizen" – 2:56
5. "Two of Every Kind" – 3:40
6. "Black Gold" – 4:12
7. "Easier Said Than Done" – 2:55
8. "Quest for Noah's Ark" – 4:53
9. "Preparing for the Flood" – 3:58
10. "Malcontent" - 2:08
11. "Sea of Galilee" - 3:57
12. "From the Roots of Your Mountains to Your Holy Temple" – 4:20

All songs written and performed by Southeast Engine.

Personnel

• Adam Remnant: vocals, guitar, harmonica
• Jesse Remnant: bass, harmony vocals
• Michael Lachman: piano, Wandering Genie, organ
• Leo DeLuca: drums, percussion