Oscar Key Sung’s New EP ‘No Disguise’ Out Today Via Good Manners Records
OSCAR KEY SUNG’S NEW EP
NO DISGUISE OUT NOW
via Good Manners Records
‘Simple Luv’ is one of the best pop songs of the year’ – Double J
‘Time seems to slow down when you listen to Oscar Key Sung’ – Clash Music
Having teased awaiting fans over the past couple of years with a run of stand-alone singles, features and collaborations, Oscar Key Sung today shares his new EP, No Disguise. Including the previously released single ‘Simple Luv’ and the record’s feature track ‘Club Mate’, it’s his first full body of work since 2015, and proves to be another indication of the unique artist’s immense talent.
No Disguise, made in Point Lonsdale and Mexico City, and then revisited while living in Berlin and Los Angeles, captures the potency of a state of being that is immersive and transient. Each song is like a container of feeling and experience, memory and time. Of the creation of the release, Oscar put together a detailed description of the EP’s themes and what it means to him which you can read here.
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Oscar Key Sung’s music is a passion perfected through equal parts discipline and obsession, a sound that leaves you in a state of being consumed, used up, enjoyed, existing completely inside a space that is, at once, intimate and vast. Fusing subtle melodies with a more throbbing and visceral soundscape, the tension between intimate moments, and the more impersonal, very danceable RnB and pop music fuelled moments are what make his style so impalpable.
WATCH ‘SIMPLE LUV’
Director/Editor: Naveed Farro and Oscar Slorach-Thorn
Shot by: Naveed Farro and Jake Shannon
Since his debut EP, released back in 2013, Oscar’s career has been gathering motion in a gradual and constant accent. ‘Holograms’ was featured and reviewed by internationally recognised Pitchfork and earned Oscar airtime from renowned tastemaker and BBC Radio 6 presenter Gilles Peterson, and was hand-picked by Mercury Music Prize-nominated mc Ghostpoet and Brooklyn-based artist MeLo-X for their MELOGHOST project.
Following the hype of his first release, the second acclaimed EP Altruism demonstrated a cohesion and progression in Oscar’s unique explorative world. The signatures of Oscar Key Sung— its panoptic production and lyrical exposition— were underscored on Altruism.
Oscar’s diligence in maintaining a captivating and high quality output was met with a UK support tour alongside London 3-piece and 2015 BBC British Artist of the Year nominees –Years & Years. The tour would prove to legitimise Oscar Key Sung’s swelling Australian profile into a realm of international accolades and success. Oscar has toured festivals in Australia and the US, performing at SXSW as well as clubs throughout Europe, Japan, and the US. The past year has seen him transpire as both a singer song writer and producer, moving into a realm where he feels as though he has fully come into himself. A sentiment that rings true in the lyricism of his latest track ‘No Disguise’ where he sings, ‘set all my disguises on fire, part of me knows who I want to be.’ Having studied sound art installation, Oscar approaches song writing like a fine artist would. Designing a body of work that is more concerned with creating a sonic mood than maintaining aesthetic continuity. To listen to this EP is to step inside a living art object; one that will make you dance insatiably and then leave you in a heightened, almost hallucinatory state of emotion.
OSCAR KEY SUNG’S NO DISGUISE EP IS OUT TODAY ON GOOD MANNERS RECORDS
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To celebrate the release of No Disguise, Oscar Key Sung will be hitting the road to showcase his incredible new release.
24/5 – The Foundry, Christchurch
25/5 – REC, Auckland
26/5 – Caroline, Wellington
15/6 – Jack Rabbit Slims, Perth
16/6 – Rocket Bar, Adelaide
22/6 – Howler, Melbourne
23/6 – The Foundry, Brisbane
6/7 – Oxford Arts Factory, Sydney
Praise for Oscar Key Sung
‘Oscar Key Sung makes that self-excoriation sound convincingly therapeutic.’
– Pitchfork
‘feels familiar yet warmly portent, where Key Sung’s understated croons draw listeners into his narrative.’ – The Line of Best Fit
‘Thanks to Melbourne-based artist Oscar Key Sung the combination of dance and R&B are no longer defined by awkward high school moves.’
– The Fader
‘Yet it’s never threatening, never imposing – there’s a warmth to the production, a sense of comfort which flows over you with each passing note.’
– Clash
‘Whether you find yourself deep in romantic bliss or deep in the sofa, alone, with a half bottle of shiraz and Parks and Recreation, you need to hear Oscar Key Sung’s latest single ‘Shallow’.
– Noisey
No Disguise out now via Good Manners Records
Touring AU/NZ May & June
Oscar Key Sung
Label: Good Manners Records