From the Sea to the Land Beyond

"From The Sea to the Land Beyond" is a soundtrack album from Brighton-based English indie rock band British Sea Power. It was released Decenber 02, 2013 on the Rough Trade label. The documentary "From The Sea to the Land Beyond: Britain's Coast on Film" directed by Penny Woolcock, explores a century of life on Britain's coastline, using a mixture of black and white and colour footage from the BFI National Archive stretching back to the earliest days of movie making. It explores social history, life in wartime and peacetime, women's history and the rise and fall of fishing and shipbuilding. British Sea Power were commissioned to write and perform the soundtrack because of their love of nature and wildlife. The soundtrack was composed at Lympne Castle in Kent and recorded at Brighton Electric studios. At Metacritic, which assigns a normalized rating out of 100 to reviews from critics, the album received an average score of 86, based on 8 reviews, indicating "Universal acclaim".