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<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><b><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif; color:black"><img id="Picture_x0020_3" src="cid:image001.png@01D09ED1.94036BB0" alt="Oscar_Logo_Bitmap" height="75" width="267"></span></b><b><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif; color:black">
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<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><b><span style="font-size:16.0pt; font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">Announces Beautiful Words EP - June 23rd 2015 (Wichita Records)<br>
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<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><b><span style="font-size:16.0pt; font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">Premieres Track “Stay” via NME -
<a href="https://soundcloud.com/oscar_music/stay" target="_blank">PRESS HERE</a> to Listen<br>
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<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><b><span style="font-size:16.0pt; font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><img id="Picture_x0020_2" src="cid:image002.jpg@01D09ED1.94036BB0" alt="Oscar_MTV_c01" height="404" width="340" border="0"></span></b><span style="font-size:16.0pt; font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"> </span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">“<i>huge but lo-fi choruses</i>”<b> <i>NME</i></b></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><i><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">“unabashedly personal pop</span></i><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">” <b><i>Pitchfork</i></b></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><b><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">Oscar Scheller
</span></b><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">unveiled another track from his forthcoming debut EP,
</span><b><i><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">Beautiful Words</span></i></b><b><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">.</span></b><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"> The
</span><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">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.
<a href="https://soundcloud.com/oscar_music/stay" target="_blank">PRESS HERE</a> to listen to “<b>Stay</b>.”
<b><i>Beautiful Words</i> </b>will be out on <b>June 23<sup>rd</sup></b> via <b>Wichita Records</b>.
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">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.</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">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 <i>Parklife</i>-era Blur, followed by Nas’s <i>Illmatic</i>, 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.)</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">Oscar recently stopped by BBC Radio 1 for a session and interview with Huw Stephens.
<a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p02sqpgp" target="_blank">PRESS HERE</a> to listen.</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">Now signed to the home of so much awesome music over the years, <b>Wichita</b>, 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. </span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">The title track is also streaming now.
<b><a href="http://www.nme.com/blogs/nme-radar/premiere-rising-bedroom-pop-star-oscar-charms-on-swooning-and-sparkling-new-single-beautiful-words" target="_blank">PRESS HERE</a></b> to listen.
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">The <b><i>Beautiful Words</i></b><i> EP</i> will be released digitally and on 12” vinyl, which will be available
<a href="http://wichitarecordings.11spot.com/oscar-beautiful-words-ep-pre-order-06-30.html" target="_blank">
HERE</a>. Preorder the EP via <a href="https://itunes.apple.com/us/album/beautiful-words-ep/id984584293" target="_blank">
iTunes</a> 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!
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">01. Beautiful Words</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">02. Forget Me Not</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">03. Grow Up</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">04. Told Me So</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">05. Stay</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">The North American release will also include “Daffodil Days” and “Caramel Brown” which were recently released on the <i>Daffodil Days </i>7” – available now via
<a href="http://wichitarecordings.11spot.com/oscar-daffodil-days-b-w-caramel-brown-7-1.html" target="_blank">
Wichita</a>. Both tracks are also available via <a href="https://itunes.apple.com/us/album/daffodil-days-single/id958303665" target="_blank">
iTunes</a>. </span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">Watch this space for Oscar’s first North American live tour. UK dates:</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">Oscar on tour:</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">13<sup>th</sup> June Bergen, Norway - Bergenfest</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">22<sup>nd</sup> July Nijmejen, Netherlands - Valkhof Festival</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">23<sup>rd</sup> July London, UK - Village Underground</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">8<sup>th</sup> Aug London, UK - Visions Festival</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">4<sup>th</sup> Sept Dorset, UK - End of the Road Festival</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><b><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">More About Oscar</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><b><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><a href="https://soundcloud.com/oscar_music" target="_blank">Soundcloud</a>
<a href="https://www.facebook.com/oscaroscar?ref=hl" target="_blank">Facebook</a>
<a href="https://twitter.com/oscar_scheller" target="_blank">Twitter</a> <a href="http://instagram.com/oscarscheller" target="_blank">
Instagram</a><u></u></span></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><b><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">For more information, contact: Chloe Walsh or Carina Contreras at Press Here Publicity – 323-556-9752 or 212-246-2640 /
</span></b><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><a href="mailto:chloe@pressherepublicity.com" target="_blank"><b>chloe@pressherepublicity.com</b></a> //
<a href="mailto:carina@pressherepublicity.com" target="_blank"><b>carina@pressherepublicity.com</b></a>
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