Kevin Bronson on August 24th, 2018

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“Deceiver,” the lead track on Possible Oceans debut EP “Phase Change,” is all nerves, a motorik-driven purge of emotions felt in the wake of a friend’s suicide. The song “is simultaneously a grief-ridden remembrance of those whose demons won and a cry of hopeful resistance for those who are still fighting,” says songwriter Trevor O’Neill.

Those opposing forces are depicted in the song’s video (which is not for the photosensitive). Made by the band, videographer James Juarez and lighting effects man Stephen Hutchison, it features O’Neill standing starkly amid strobes and projections, as silhouettes encroach.

The quartet, built around the core of O’Neill and songwriting partner Daniel Berkman, cut their teeth under the name Sympathetic Frequencies. After some personnel changes, O’Neill and Berkman adopted the title of the Sympathetic Frequencies EP and moved on as Possible Oceans, making their new EP with producer Aki Ehara of The Seshen.

||| Watch: The video for “Deceiver”

||| Also: Stream “What’s Coming to Me”