Oceans Hiding In Oceans

On February 19, 2021, Philip B. Price (frontman and songwriter for acclaimed chamber-pop band Winterpills) will release a new solo album, Oceans Hiding In Oceans. Price’s 2019 solo album Bone Almanac was described by PopMatters as “another masterclass in songwriting and performance.” and “enveloping and poetic” by Paste Magazine. Written and recorded at home during the pandemic, Oceans Hiding In Oceans is a kaleidoscope of moods, shapes and sounds from Price’s own personal bunker. “I won’t lie, it was a rough time.” Price writes from within the labyrinth of a mind in near pandemic midbreakdown, and yet the music veers dizzily from optimistic and meticulously crafted Magnetic Fields-like electro-pop (“!is is the Last Time”), to the Dolly Parton-esque (“Loneliness”), to the Lennon-like (“Little Bell”), to swirling angry Slowdive-style shoegaze (“Forever Vines”). He played every instrument. “I don’t think I’ve ever made a more ‘indoorsy’ album, so to speak. It was freeing, in a way, to just live inside my computer inside my little studio inside my little house inside my little head and “nd my way to whatever musical ocean crashes around inside me, which is of course inside yet another ocean – I guess this is a quantum physics album, without knowing much about quantum physics.”