Name: Things I Never Said
Brand: Oceanator

Bonus disc

Bonus disc: No

Catalogue number

BSM286V

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Colour

black

Colour details

Discogs ID

Discs

Download code

Download code: No

Rough Trade Exclusive

Rough Trade Exclusive: No

Extended format

Extended format: No

Format detail

Format Music GB

Limited edition

Release date

2020-10-09

Signed copies

Signed copies: No

Supplier GB

The Orchard

Tax rate GB

UPC / Barcode

5060366789211

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1 / Extended format: No / LP / Rough Trade Exclusive: No / Signed copies: No / black

Artist

Oceanator

Genre GB

Alternative / Modern

Label GB

Big Scary Monsters

There’s a line on Oceanator’s debut full-length when Elise Okusami belts, “I think I think too much.” It’s a plainspoken yet resounding thesis for an album called Things I Never Said, which sees the NYC multi-instrumentalist hyperbolically equating early adulthood malaise with apocalyptic destruction. The type of anxieties that form when thoughts bottle up and stress gets the best of you. 

Throughout the record, allusions to intrusive thoughts and depression-induced stasis are weaved in between references to falling skies, rolling fires, and the possibility of the world literally falling apart. “If the sun never came up tomorrow / do you think we would even notice?” Okusami asks in <i>I Would Find You,</i> a moody ode to staying out late and sleeping until the afternoon. Or as Okusami puts it, “keeping to the shadows.” 

There’s no concrete resolution to the album, but rather a vital reminder that love and friendship, both with others and herself, will always reign victorious in our darkest moments. The album ends with a song aptly titled, <i>Sunshine</i>, in which Okusami, backed by just her chugging guitar, details a day of venturing outside into the sun and subsequently accepting herself in solitude..” 

Things I Never Said

Music GB