Ultralife Oh Wonder
Album info
Album-Release:
2017
HRA-Release:
28.07.2017
Album including Album cover
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- 1Solo03:25
- 2Ultralife03:32
- 3Lifetimes03:52
- 4High On Humans03:11
- 5All About You03:02
- 6Heavy03:12
- 7Bigger Than Love03:40
- 8Heart Strings03:24
- 9Slip Away03:41
- 10Overgrown03:58
- 11My Friends04:55
- 12Waste04:17
Info for Ultralife
Oh Wonder starten mit ihrem zweiten Album "Ultralife" durch: Selbst geschrieben, produziert und abgemischt haben die beiden das Album in New York und London. Das Album nimmt die Essenz des experimentellen Erstlings auf und geht noch weiter: hypnotischen Paargesänge, ungeschönt-emotionale Texte und das Ätherisch-Schöne verschmelzen erneut. Der strahlende Albumvorbote, zugleich Titelsong, bringt schon sehr gut auf den Punkt, was den Sound von Oh Wonder ausmacht: Ganz klar der schnellste Song ihrer bisherigen Laufbahn, könnte die Mischung aus Piano und Beats nicht euphorischer und verführerischer sein - der perfekte Gute-Laune-Song.
"Was wir während der Arbeit an dem Album jedoch gar nicht bemerkt haben", erzählt Josephine, "ist der rote Faden, der Erzählbogen: Es geht nämlich darum, andere Menschen zu brauchen – aber eben auch Zeit für sich selbst." "Solo" handelt von dieser Freiheit: Es ist eine Ode ans Alleinsein und die damit verbundenen Freiräume. Der Titel "Waste" hingegen dreht sich darum, wie sinnlos sich das Leben anfühlt, wenn man niemanden hat, mit dem man seine Erfahrungen teilen kann. Das Album erzählt euch noch weitere schöne Geschichten - einfach hier reinhören und genießen.
Josephine Vander Gucht, vocals, keyboards
Anthony West, vocals, guitar
Oh Wonder
When we last heard from Londoners Josephine Vander Gucht and Anthony West, they were capping an incredible year with a sold-out show at London’s Roundhouse. In the space of fourteen months, they went from tentatively playing a first live show at London’s ICA to touring the world, playing shows across Latin America, Australia, Russia and Asia, and repeat UK, Europe, US and Canada tours to ever increasing rooms. It culminated in 162 shows in 112 cities, with a mighty 83,000 tickets sold. A connection.
Oh Wonder began as a writing project, where the duo set out to write, record and release one song every month for a year, hoping to inevitably pitch the songs to other artists. However the tracks were being listened to in their hundreds of thousands, and then into their multi-millions; now their first album is fast approaching half a billion streams. Anthony and Josephine’s side project had inadvertently morphed into an internationally touring band; a happy accident indeed.
‘Ultralife’ is the sound of a new confidence seeping into the pair’s songwriting. It is muscular in its delivery, celebratory in its message, and plays with a dizzying array of textures and sounds, but without losing the essence of what makes Oh Wonder so special.
Oh Wonder head to the US in April to play a series of West Coast shows around their two slots at Coachella. They return to the US in May for six further dates ahead of a summer of festival performances across the UK/Europe.
This album contains no booklet.