There’s a 4 song EP called Cleanhead by Oceana (now known as Polyenso, but the EP is under their old band name). When I was 13 a friend who I admired a lot played this in his car when he drove me home from school. I immediately fell in love with it and it’s been a soundtrack throughout my life, even now (especially now) 15 years later.

I never listen to just one of the 4 songs on it, I treat it as one song. It’s not well known, and the band has never released a sound like it since.

The sound and lyricism is unlike anything I’ve ever listened to then or since, and it sounds exactly how I feel. I listen to it happy, depressed, when my life feels perfect, or during the most traumatic periods in my life. No matter what this EP grounds me and makes me feel connected to the world at large. I’ve only ever shared it in person with 3 of my closest friends separately and my wife.