Oh Wonder make their highly anticipated return today with their first single Halleluja
OH WONDER MAKE HIGHLY ANTICIPATED RETURN WITH
NEW SINGLE “HALLELUJAH”
NEW YORK, NY – SEPTEMBER 5TH – Oh Wonder make their highly anticipated return today with their first single in over two years, “Hallelujah”
listen HERE and watch the video HERE!
If there has always been more to Oh Wonder than met the eye, “Hallelujah” heralds a newfound clarity in the alt-pop duo. Building from hushed harmonies and beautiful orchestration into breakneck electronics and dizzying pop, it’s easily the most urgent, infectious and anthemic moment of Oh Wonder’s career to date. Written, recorded and produced by Josephine Vander Gucht and Anthony West in their home studio, the song arrives alongside a joyous, one-take video made in collaboration with Gregory Ohrel and Supple Nam.
“Hallelujah” announces Oh Wonder’s return in bold, brilliant fashion: no longer DIY pop-stars-in-hiding, but a duo whose musical and emotional alchemy is a timely testament to our purest need to connect. Of the song, Oh Wonder says, “‘Hallelujah’ is a song of defiance that we wrote for anyone that has ever been told they can’t do something.
As music-making teenagers, we were both discouraged by naysayers who declared that we would never be successful, that we weren’t good enough, and that we could never be superstars, so we should just give up. When we met each other, we bonded over our shared experiences of setbacks and near-misses, and set ourselves the highly unrealistic goal of releasing music and touring the world. After two albums and a world tour of 43 countries, we have only recently had a chance to process the last five years.
‘Hallelujah’ is a reminder to ourselves, as much as anyone else, to not care what people think of you, to work hard, be yourself and try your best. It’s our personal anthem of self-acceptance that we hope will encourage others to ‘wear their crowns,’ no matter what anyone else says.” Stay tuned for more new music from Oh Wonder this fall!
ABOUT OH WONDER
What started with the relatively modest ambition of uploading one track a month for a year on Soundcloud quickly transformed the lives of Josephine Vander Gucht and Anthony West, who make up London-based alt-pop duo Oh Wonder. Five years, two billion streams and more than a million record sales globally down the line – as well as a top 10 album in the U.K., and sold-out shows around the world and 300,000 global headline tickets – have led to where Oh Wonder find themselves in 2019: a truly modern-day success story, and one which, like the best of things, appears to have largely been a happy accident. The same, too, could be said of the friendship between Josephine and Anthony, whose magnetic intimacy on and off-stage has evolved (as many fans speculated) into romantic relationship, with all the highs and lows that come from living, working and doing just about everything else with your partner. As much as their new single “Hallelujah” pushes the sound of the band forward, for Josephine and Anthony (who still write, record and produce all their music themselves in their home studio), it also represents that confidence – to open up and to go back to your roots – which has been paramount to their approach on their upcoming project.
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