Omar Apollo returns with new single/video ‘Go Away’ + confirms US Tour External Inbox
Omar Apollo returns with new single/video,
‘Go Away’, + confirms US Tour
Available now on Warner Records
“A bonafide pop star” GQ
“Lovelorn songs that reconcile the sultry sounds of D’Angelo, Prince, and Frank Ocean with Mexican soul and traditional corridos” – ROLLING STONE
“Conjures up mid-1980’s Prince” – SUNDAY TIMES CULTURE
“You need to hear Omar Apollo’s supernatural soul” DAZED
“Makes love songs that pull you in like a billowing dream” – THE OBSERVER
“Sets the young star up as a new master of steamy bedroom jams” – NME ****
Omar Apollo has today shared brand new song ‘Go Away’, which drops alongside a video on Warner Records. The song shepherds a new era for the artist and showcases Apollo’s incredible growth and talent as a songwriter. It’s his first taste of new music, too, since last year’s ‘Apolonio’ project, which featured the likes of Kali Uchis, Bootsy Collins, and was hailed by Pitchfork as undoubtedly “his most fully realized work.”
‘Go Away’ arrives alongside news of Omar Apollo’s North American tour, which kicks off later this month (“one of the most electric live performers of his generation” – GQ). Support comes from rising stars like Deb Never, Maye, Sofía Valdés and Niko Rubio on select dates, whilst Omar will also make festival stops at Lollapalooza, Bonnaroo, Austin City Limits, and Music Midtown. Omar has previously sold out worldwide tours including London dates at Village Underground and Heaven (he was also invited to perform a one-of-a-kind live stream at Prince’s Paisley Park in support of ‘Apolonio’). Having also collaborated previously with the likes of Kenny Beats, Dominic Fike, and amassed a huge global audience, Omar even found time to launch his own hot sauce business, ‘Disha Hot’, under lockdown (the recipe for which has been passed down for generations in the Mexican-American’s family).
Omar Apollo is one of R&B’s most exciting shape-shifters. As the 23-year-old singer/songwriter prepares his debut album, he’s holding close to music that feels inventive, experimental, and true to his wide-ranging passion. R&B remains the foundation, but Apollo is branching out with a bilingual fusion of funk, pop, electronic, hip-hop, reggaéton, corridos—as he puts it, “everything.” Apollo’s has been a transformative but linear journey, from listening to Brandy and Stevie as a kid, to plucking away at a guitar at 11, to self-releasing a pairs of EPs as a young man—2018’s ‘Stereo’ and 2019’s ‘Friends’ —that established his signature “bedroom soul,” and earned him love from fans and press. As unique as his sound is, Apollo has gotten as much attention for his lyrics—themes of romantic yearning and self-improvement swirled up with expressions of cultural heritage and identity. Now, he’s leaning even more into all of it, making music that feels closer to his heart than ever. In 2020, he released his “quarantine project,”
‘Apolonio’. But as he finishes up his LP, he’s dreaming bigger, bringing in collaborators, and pushing himself harder than ever before. He’s more self-assured, and wants the rest of the world to catch up to what his fans have been seeing from the beginning. “I used to think I wasn’t built for this because I’m just a kid from Indiana,” says Apollo. “But that thought is gone now. I know what to do. Everything just feels right.”
Check out ‘Go Away’ and tour details below – watch out for more from Omar Apollo coming soon.
UPCOMING GIGS:
JULY
27th – Chicago, IL @ Metro
30th – Chicago, IL @ Lollapalooza
SEPTEMBER
3rd – Manchester, TN @ Bonnaroo
18th – Miami, FL @ Space Park +
19th – Atlanta, GA @ Music Midtown
28th – Tucson, AZ @ Hotel Congress +#
29th – Phoenix, AZ @ The Van Buren +#
30th – El Paso, TX @ Lowbrow Palace +#
OCTOBER
2nd – Houston, TX @ White Oak Music Hall +#
3rd – Austin, TX @ Austin City Limits
5th – Oklahoma City, OK @ Tower +#
6th – Santa Fe, NM @ Meow Wolf +#
8th – Salt Lake City, UT @ Union Event Center +#
10th – Austin, TX @ Austin City Limits
12th – San Francisco, CA @ Warfield Theatre +#
13th – Chico, CA @ Senator Theatre +#
15th – Portland, OR @ Crystal Ballroom +#
16th – Vancouver, BC @ Commodore Ballroom +#
17th – Seattle, WA @ Showbox +#
19th – Sacramento, CA @ Ace of Spades +^
20th – Santa Cruz, CA @ The Catalyst +^
23rd – Los Angeles, CA @ The Shrine +^
25th – Las Vegas, NV @ Brooklyn Bowl*^
27th – Denver, CO @ The Ogden*^
29th – Lawrence, KS @ Liberty Hall*^
30th – Minneapolis, MN @ First Ave*^
NOVEMBER
2nd – Detroit, MI @ The Majestic*^
3rd – Columbus, OH @ Newport Music Hall*^
4th – Washington, DC @ 9:30 Club*^
6th – Philadelphia, PA @ TLA*^
9th – New York, NY @ Terminal 5*^
10th – Boston, MA @ Big Night Live*^
