LABEL: PIAS
CAT NO: PIASB734LP
BARCODE: 5400863055400
Tracklisting:
1. James
2. Ghost Of You
3. Crystalline
4. Your Choice
5. Ocean City
6. Transfixions
7. Nostalgic Bitch
8. Livestream
9. Oliver
10. The P.I.C.
11. The Shimmer
OSCAR AND THE WOLF – Shimmer
LP – Black Vinyl
(Includes download code.)
Belgian pop superstar Max Colombie, a.k.a. Oscar and the Wolf announces new album The Shimmer, due 22nd October on [PIAS] Recordings. Along with the cover art and the 11-song track listing of his highly anticipated third album, Max also unveils the brand-new single Oliver and its accompanying video, which he also directed.
The new Oscar and the Wolf album The Shimmer distils the essence of Colombie’s sound and vision in its title and the image of Colombie on the album cover, bathed in starry light. The album is a benchmark of his transformation on record; whereas Entity was recorded in a barn, “very lo-fi with no access to gear,” he recalls, The Shimmer’s bold, rich and layered dynamics were captured at ICP Studios in Brussels, home to, “one of the best live rooms in Europe, with all this vintage gear.” More intimate moments were added at Colombie’s house outside the city, “those magic takes we made just after we’d written something, which are so hard to capture again.”
By ‘we’, Colombie includes producer Jeroen De Pessemier and multi-instrumentalist Ozan Bozdag, who had both worked on Infinity (and Bozdag on Entity too). “It’s a magical trio,” Colombie says. “Everyone is allowed to be themselves, and to explore themselves. I’m really happy with The Shimmer because I hear a more mature version of myself. I always want things to grow, and I’m proud that I allowed myself to not follow people’s expectations and reproduce what had been successful before. There are no four-to-the-floor clubby pop songs this time.”
Instead, The Shimmer more accurately reflects Colombie’s personality. “My emotions run from super-happy to super-melancholic in a split second,” he says. “To me, The Shimmer feels like the soundtrack to a blockbuster, with many types of tracks and themes. It’s always changing.”
See below for tracklisting…