Tompkins is back with a family of songs that didn’t quite make the cut on past records called Kenny Husband & The Husky Section. He’s not calling them b-sides; but rather, he’s referring to them lovingly as “husky bois” and, it’s clear that this is not a normal b-sides collection.

Tompkins says he made this record “hunched over a 4-track, recording this music to damaged tapes that had been stored in my hot garage for over a decade and were always threatening to self-destruct.” Ocean Pines sounds like a record where a songwriter rediscovered the creative process. It’s an intimate record, made from the pure joy found in writing songs.