OSCAR Premieres New Track "Stay" + Debut EP Out June 23

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Announces Beautiful Words EP - June 23rd 2015 (Wichita Records)

Premieres Track “Stay” via NME - PRESS HERE<https://soundcloud.com/oscar_music/stay> to Listen

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“huge but lo-fi choruses” NME

“unabashedly personal pop” Pitchfork

Oscar Scheller unveiled another track from his forthcoming debut EP, Beautiful Words. The 23-year-old melody-savant has emerged from his messy bedroom in North West London holding a MacBook full of songs to save British pop with beautiful words: and notes and chords too. PRESS HERE<https://soundcloud.com/oscar_music/stay> to listen to “Stay.” Beautiful Words will be out on June 23rd via Wichita Records.

You could say Oscar was destined to become an indie heart-throb. He studied sculpture at St Martin’s College. His mum kicked it with Ari Up at The Mudd Club. His Dad was in New Wavers The Regents, then produced acid house. Songbook classicism pours out of Oscar in a rich baritone. It’s how he deals with loss, painful things, family things or girls.

His melancholic songs make heavy use of snippets of sampled breakbeats, naughtily broken off from 90’s East Coast rap records (he also loves rap). It’s like he fell asleep listening to Parklife-era Blur, followed by Nas’s Illmatic, and woke up with a gangsta melancholy synthesis boogie. ‘Beautiful Words’ even has a ‘Dem Bow’ beat swathed in Oscar’s fuzzy, scrunchy bedroom production (he takes his cues from other favorites here; The Radio Dept.)

Oscar recently stopped by BBC Radio 1 for a session and interview with Huw Stephens.  PRESS HERE<http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p02sqpgp> to listen.

Now signed to the home of so much awesome music over the years, Wichita, alongside their current roster of the likes of Girlpool, Slow Club and Cate Le Bon, he’s one of the most brilliant new songwriting voices around to tune into. A light touch, a deep voice and mind, a heavy heart, and a new hero.

The title track is also streaming now. PRESS HERE<http://www.nme.com/blogs/nme-radar/premiere-rising-bedroom-pop-star-oscar-charms-on-swooning-and-sparkling-new-single-beautiful-words> to listen.

The Beautiful Words EP will be released digitally and on 12” vinyl, which will be available HERE<http://wichitarecordings.11spot.com/oscar-beautiful-words-ep-pre-order-06-30.html>. Preorder the EP via iTunes<https://itunes.apple.com/us/album/beautiful-words-ep/id984584293> and received “Stay” and “Beautiful Words” as an instant download.  Review copies of the full EP are now available. Request one and make your day endlessly brighter!

01. Beautiful Words
02. Forget Me Not
03. Grow Up
04. Told Me So
05. Stay

The North American release will also include “Daffodil Days” and “Caramel Brown” which were recently released on the Daffodil Days 7” – available now via Wichita<http://wichitarecordings.11spot.com/oscar-daffodil-days-b-w-caramel-brown-7-1.html>.  Both tracks are also available via iTunes<https://itunes.apple.com/us/album/daffodil-days-single/id958303665>.

Watch this space for Oscar’s first North American live tour. UK dates:

Oscar on tour:

13th June          Bergen, Norway - Bergenfest
22nd July           Nijmejen, Netherlands - Valkhof Festival
23rd July           London, UK - Village Underground
8th Aug             London, UK - Visions Festival
4th Sept            Dorset, UK - End of the Road Festival

More About Oscar
Soundcloud<https://soundcloud.com/oscar_music> Facebook<https://www.facebook.com/oscaroscar?ref=hl>  Twitter<https://twitter.com/oscar_scheller>  Instagram<http://instagram.com/oscarscheller>

For more information, contact: Chloe Walsh or Carina Contreras at Press Here Publicity – 323-556-9752 or 212-246-2640 / chloe at pressherepublicity.com<mailto:chloe at pressherepublicity.com> // carina at pressherepublicity.com<mailto:carina at pressherepublicity.com>


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