song: "Too Late" — Oceanator

photo: Alex Joseph

Under her Oceanator moniker, Elise Okusami delivers on powerful, moving music that tugs at your every heartstring with its confessional, relatable nature. And today, Okusami is expanding her imprint into releasing music, announcing the formation of a label, Plastic Miracles. To celebrate this newest endeavor, Okusami announced a compilation of incredible artists, and all proceeds are going towards City Harvest.

The entire compilation is worth checking out, featuring tunes from TGE faves including Long Neck, Gaymeat, Calyx, Radiator Hospital, and more. However, it’s Oceanator’s contribution that we’re focusing on, as the song, “Too Late” shows just an inkling of a new identity — weaving bits of ska into a ferocious single. There’s a midpoint guitar solo, impassioned percussion work, and a pacing that won’t quick, wrapping you up in its energy as it further unfurls, Okusami assuring an unknown identity that their wrongs won’t be forgotten.

Stream the new single, below, along with Okusami’s thoughts on beginning a label.

As the creator of this new label told TGE, “Originally I wanted to start this label in order to release music by bands that I really love.  I figured if I could help by putting up the money up front for them to get a cassette out and then help spread the word about them, then that would be a pretty fun and worthwhile project. Some stuff has changed for my band, Oceanator, and I might be releasing some of that music on here as well.  I figure I’ll treat it like any other band on the label though, and a portion of those sales will go back into the label, too.

I’m hoping to do a compilation every 6 months or so.  I want to have different bands and have 50% of the sales go towards a different charity or organization every time, and then the other 50% go into covering the costs of pressing the tapes and once that’s covered start going into the label to fund future releases.  

For this Vol 1. compilation, though, I’m doing 100% of proceeds to City Harvest (cityharvest.org).  It’s gonna be digital, pay what you want, and then there’s also a cassette option.”