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When I met Sea Offs<\/a> months ago at my favorite coffee shop, I didn\u2019t expect that our meeting spot would soon close down, or that I\u2019d eventually write about the band while watching the children across the street play outside in hand-sewn masks. Similarly, Sea Offs didn\u2019t anticipate debuting their first release in three years during a time of collective trauma. But if you\u2019re feeling anxious (which, you probably are), Sea Offs\u2019 new dream folk EP <\/span>En Root<\/span><\/i><\/a> offers a moment of solace in its delicately powerful declarations of vulnerability and self-acceptance.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n En Root<\/span><\/i>, with its silly wordplay, evokes slow, sturdy growth, which fits the EP well. But if Olivia Price and Rashmit Arora love anything as much as they love a good pun, it\u2019s an unexpected song structure. Grounded with vocal harmonies and finger-picked guitars,<\/span> En Root<\/span><\/i> is soothing, yet never boring. You can sense the care that goes into the beautiful, multi-instrumental compositions of songs like \u201cTo Find Your Side\u201d and \u201cFor Familiarity\u2019s Sake,\u201d but the duo is their best on \u201cWill (You),\u201d which recalls the emptiness of sex without intimacy. Price sings, \u201cWill you make me doubt\/My own amount\/I lay complacent like a ragdoll.\u201d Like the other songs on the record, it begins on the mellower side, yet unexpectedly erupts into a shouty (yet still beautiful) rejection of the bullshit and baggage that comes along with being treated as less than what you\u2019re worth.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n