The Ocean say: "The Quiet Observer is our first track with Paul Seide and Damian Murdoch, who have both been with us for almost two years now. It represents where we stand as a band.

"The song was inspired by what's referred to as the 'intermediate state' according to the Bardo Thodol, the Tibetan Book Of The Dead. It's the state immediately after a person's death, when the intellect is challenged to face its own illusions, in the form of peaceful and wrathful deities.