Omar Apollo drops ‘Ice Slippin’, announces ‘Live for Me’ EP
ANNOUNCES UPCOMING LIVE FOR ME EP OUT OCTOBER 6TH VIA WARNER RECORDS
CO-HEADLINING MADISON SQUARE GARDEN WITH DANIEL CAESAR OCTOBER 17TH
“Ivory goes beyond thinking outside the box: It’s as if the box were never even there to begin with” Pitchfork
“Whenever someone listens to his music for the first time, they are easily hooked forever” COMPLEX
Following a string of successes this year alone, Omar Apollo returns to share his latest single, ‘Ice Slippin.’ The song also arrives with news of a forthcoming EP, Live for Me, which has just been announced for release on October 6th via Warner Records.
Earlier this week, Omar teased fans with the location of three ice sculptures in London, Los Angeles, and New York and later took to Instagram to reveal the official artwork from his upcoming EP. The cover art is a portrait of Omar by Doron Langberg, a celebrated figurative painter who engages with new dialogues around queer sensuality and sexuality. His work is known for its distinctive psychological register which – both in its subject matter and execution – hinges on a sense of intimacy and celebrates the physicality of touch.
‘Ice Slippin’ sees Omar building on his refined songwriting skills that propelled him to fame following the release of his debut album, IVORY, last April. This latest offering from the artist was co-produced by Omar and Teo Halm (ROSALÍA, Beyoncé, SZA, Lil Yachty). Speaking on the latest track, Omar shares,“‘Ice Slippin is about reliving the thoughts I had passing through my mind the winter I came out to my family. Receiving cold judgment as opposed to the acceptance I felt I deserved. This song is a reflection and reaction of all the emotions I had to face before and after I decided to leave the icy streets of Indiana.”
Last year, Omar Apollo released his debut album IVORY which was widely celebrated for its ability to blur genre lines and language barriers. This translated to a Grammy nomination for Best New Artist and earned the 26-year-old artist commercial success, including a 7-week run on the Billboard Hot 100 for his first RIAA-certified platinum record, ‘Evergreen (You Didn’t Deserve Me At All).’ Omar also enjoyed critical acclaim landing on year-end lists from esteemed media outlets such as NPR, The FADER, Billboard, Complex, Esquire, and Rolling Stone amongst others. Performances on NPR’s Tiny Desk and Jimmy Kimmel Live! followed his debut album while he had previously unveiled the single ‘Killing Me’ on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon. Since the release of his most recent single ‘3 Boys’ in February 2023, Omar has been named the first ambassador for skincare brand Youth to the People as well as the new face of Loewe’s menswear campaign under the creative direction of Jonathan Anderson. Later this autumn, Omar will return to the stage where he will be co-headlining Madison Square Garden with Daniel Caesar.
Stay tuned for more from Omar Apollo coming soon.
Upcoming Live Dates
key – * = co-headlining with Daniel Caesar
9/23 – Las Vegas, NV @ Life is Beautiful Festival
10/17 – New York, NY @ Madison Square Garden*
About Omar Apollo:
2023 Grammy-nominated Best New Artist Omar Apollo is one of music’s most exciting shape-shifters. In just a few years time, the Indiana-raised Mexican-American singer-songwriter went from teenage strummer to one of the most hotly-tipped rising stars of his generation. Apollo has had a transformative but linear journey, from listening to Brandy and Stevie Wonder as a kid, to plucking away at a guitar at as a pre-teen, to a major label record deal and the release of his critically acclaimed debut album IVORY in the spring of ’22 on the heels of his 2 Latin GRAMMY nominations for his collaboration ’Te Olvidaste’ with C Tangana. IVORY catapulted him to another level in his career and earning him critical acclaim from the likes of the Los Angeles Times and Rolling Stone and more. The album also features his 2022 RIAA Certified Gold breakout hit ’Evergreen”’ which had a massive lift on TikTok earning him VARIETY’s TikTok Icon of The Year Award and garnering television performances of the song on Jimmy Kimmel Live! and Good Morning America. Other album singles such as ’Invincible’ featuring Daniel Caesar, ’Killing Me’, ’Go Away’, and ’Tamagotchi’ (Prod. by Pharrell and Chad Hugo) cross genre lines as well as language barriers. He went on to perform those and more on his sold out The Prototype Tour in ’22 and will continue his riveting live show trajectory on SZA’s SOS Tour in ’23. Despite all that he has accomplished, Omar feels like he’s just getting started. The artist who once called himself “just a kid from Indiana” is breaking new ground, abandoning all comfort zones, and never looking back.
