The roadie is imminent. The destination is Grey Lynn and this car is leaving town. Claim the front seat on this emotional safari which aims for the peaks of freedom, ditching this cesspool, called modern life.

Ocean Beach’s (named after the defunct Freezing Works in Southland) debut album, The Long Road Home, is scheduled to arrive, May 17, 2025 with a party launch at the Grey Lynn RSC Ballroom.

You are personally invited to hitch a ride on this journey into the exciting unknown, a sort of Goodbye Pork Pie in reverse, leaving Invercargill for Auckland, Earth for the Stars, Physicality for Spirituality, Attachment for Surrender.

Long Road Home is, essentially, a road-trip-opus of a life well-lived. There are two distinct sides to this story.

MEDICATION
Where parties, pubs (Tower of Babel) and bucket bongs (Savage Buckets) recant corporate and social misogyny-observed (Boys Club). An interstellar incursion (‘Omuamua), seems to influence the commentary in a profoundly celestial manner. This pit stop guides us back onto the onramp to…Act II…

MEDITATION
The celestial entanglement is realised first, with a sparkling space-waltz (Omnism), then, a romantic epiphany reveals itself in the form of a ballad (Come Around). We then find ourselves floating into a love song for meditation (Be Together). Finally, the credits roll, as we surrender completely, to the instrumental cruising closer, Long Road Home (our destination?).

The album was recorded by Dale Cotton (HDU, Beastwars) and produced by Dale, Bryan Spittle and Gary Dalhousie.

The art for the singles and album has been a collab with Design Wankers, Coley Jr, Warren Elwin, Roger Murray and Wayne Conway.

Label
Freek Records
Genre
Pop & Rock LP - SDIE A: MEDICATION
Savage Buckets (instrumental)
On My Way
Tower of Babel
Boys Club
Omuamua (instrumental)
LP - SIDE B: MEDITATION
Omnism
Come Around
Be Together
Long Road Home (instrumental)

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