We, too, are grinning from ear to ear because we can finally announce that NYC multi-instrumentalist Oceanator has joined the Polyvinyl family!!!! Elise Okusami's revelatory debut record, Things I Never Said, is now available digitally and will be reissued physically on January 15. Pre-order Polyvinyl's exclusive Early Bird edition (limited to 200) on Funfetti (Clear w/ Pink, Orange, Yellow and Blue Splatter) vinyl and peep the lustrous merch spread. 

Today's signing comes complete with an official music video for album favorite "January 21st," directed by Baby Pony Food Productions. Of the video Elise shared, "the idea was to represent that feeling of being stuck in an anxiety spiral, and the way your body and mind feels when you're in one." Watch below. BONUS: Oceanator will be performing a Bandcamp livestream set (full band! in-studio!) tomorrow, October 21 @ 5PM CT – tickets onsale now! 

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 Brooklyn artist hyperbolically equating early adulthood malaise with apocalyptic destruction. Complementary to the extraordinarily direct subject matter, the songs themselves are punchy, sticky, and immediately engrossing pieces of heavy grunge-pop. 

The album ends with a song aptly titled, "Sunshine," in which Okusami, backed by just her chugging guitar, details a day of venturing outside into the sun and subsequently accepting herself in solitude. Her tepidly peaceful demeanor on the cover art suggests that she's wise enough to know that this feeling won't last forever, but that it will in fact return — echoing two of the last lines on the album: "Sometimes it gets me down / but I usually come around."