"Albeit Oceana have continued to progress wonderfully since the departure of Burns and Jones after The Tide, many fans have longed for these two to release new music."

Jack Burns actually left Oceana after the Clean Head EP. He wrote birth.eather and the clean head EP, hence the resemblence of decoder to the 'new' oceana sound. Hes doing awesome things. Just hope oceana can cope without him and continue to make some progressive new stuff.

Originally Posted by Rysker6

Wow, AltPress slammed this as a Thrice ripoff...I may have to check it out.

Burns told me personally that some of the biggest influences on his writing were as cities burn and thrice. You can tell the influence, but to call it a thrice ripoff....far from it.