Behind The Tracks: Oceans On Orion - What Hurts The Most (Single) (2025)

'What Hurts The Most', the first single from an album that’s long overdue, almost didn’t happen. When the war started and Lev, like many others, returned to the army, everything stopped. The music. The plans. The momentum. And this record nearly became a casualty. No one would know about it. No one would mourn.

On October 7th, work on Oceans on Orion’s next album stopped completely. It suddenly felt irrelevant. Insignificant. In the months that followed, the world moved on. But we didn’t.

We found people who could step in and help. We adapted. We compromised. We accepted that if this album was going to survive, it would come out differently than we imagined. Scarred, imperfect, but alive.

We struggled through. Inch by inch. Sometimes I feel guilty for even thinking about music at all.

The first song we finished is called 'What Hurts The Most'.

It’s a breakup song, but not in the usual sense. It’s about the quiet realization that even after all the pain, the silence, the distance, you’d still say yes to the person who broke you. And how that truth is harder to face than the heartbreak itself. This track is heavy, but it’s honest. It carries the weight we’ve been carrying. The burden of unfinished art that refused to be silenced.

Mixed by Jonathan Kossov.

Written, arranged, and recorded by a family that refused to stop being a band.

'What Hurts The Most' is out now!

This is the first single from our next album. It’s not just a release. It’s a sign that we’re still here. That art survives war. It has to.

Link to all the streaming platforms - https://ffm.to/whathurts