Ocean Pleasant – Queen City Sounds and Art

OceanPleasant1_crop — Ocean Pleasant, photo courtesy the artist

In the background of Ocean Pleasant’s “Premonition” synths swell like a combination of memories and visions of the future. This while the soulful vocals and textured yet hypnotic beat keeps you focused in the moment. Inspired in part by the scent of a candle left behind by an old roommate, the song is about our minds’ ability to comprehend information that isn’t fully processed by our conscious thoughts and that information comes to us through intuitions and flashes of insight that eventually do manifest in our lives and conscious understanding. But that if we arrest our Western culture-trained instincts for only valuing and thus only perceiving strictly materially empirical information we can utilize these ways of understanding to our benefit and to the enrichment of our lives individually and collectively. The way the song is structured reflects the way perceived time ebbs and flows not unpredictably but inconsistently if we analyze it outside of the experience of it, but on the experiential level those ebbs and flows are natural and make sense and have a consistency that transcends the limitations of linear logic. Fans of Lorde will enjoy how Ocean Pleasant combines dynamic, lush soundscapes written as a downtempo pop song, imbuing it with emotional richness and authenticity. Listen to “Premonition” on Spotify and follow Ocean Pleasant at the links below.