OCEAN DISTRICTS

The Estonian instrumentalists are already their country’s leading post-rockers.

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Prog can be a pretty insular place, even at the best of times, but Ocean Districts guitarist Martin Lepalaan says that that’s especially true in his hometown, Tallinn. “It’s small: 400,000 people,” he tells us over a video call from his guitar shop in the Estonian capital. “Everybody knows everybody else. It’s not very difficult to play in Tallinn for local bands. If you’re a touring band coming from Latvia or Finland, it might be more difficult. Getting enough people to attend the show is tough, because there’s so much music out there today.” Rock artists that have burst out of the city to find mainstream relevance are rare. The only examples Lepalaan offers are Laur Joamets, guitarist for US country rocker Sturgill Simpson, and the metal band Metsatöll. At the…

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