Two years after his debut album “Cut And Paste”, Oscar is back with the exciting and resounding “1UP”. Produced by NZCA LINES, the pop track features Sarah Bonito of Kero Kero Bonito who raps here in Japanse and English in between video games sound effects.

About the track, Oscar detailed:

[su_quote]’1UP’ is about having a second chance to start again and making it count. Whether that be a relationship, (with ourselves or others), a lifestyle or even just a philosophy you want to exercise. It’s a celebration of re-birth, intention and progression. As I’ve experienced anxiety and depression, there are moments you feel like you just gotta get through the day, like life is a video game and you’re a character trying to pass the level.[/su_quote]

Before adding:

[su_quote]I knew it needed a rap verse on it, but more of an old school hip hop positive rap. I’ve known Sarah (Kero Kero Bonito) a long time and knew she’d be the perfect counterpart and often felt she was the voice of positivity, empathy and understanding. I hope it gives people a new lease of life and the strength to keep playing on![/su_quote]

The track comes with an arcade game-inspired video which was made by Dogceo. Watch it below.

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There are more music and collaborations from Oscar on the way, including one with Shura. Stay tuned!

“Nightride” – Tinashe

“We Got It From Here…Thank You 4 Your Service” – A Tribe Called Quest

“1992” – Princess Nokia

“Malibu” – Anderson .Paak

“My Woman” – Angel Olsen

“Hopelessness” – Anohni

“Coloring Book” – Chance The Rapper

“Atrocity Exhibition” – Danny Brown

“Blackstar” – David Bowie

“Blonde” – Frank Ocean

“How To Be A Human Being” – Glass Animals

“Oh No” – Jessy Lanza

“The Life Of Pablo” – Kanye West

“Dangerous Woman” – Ariana Grande

“Puberty 2” – Mitski

“Telefone” – noname

“Tempo” – Olga Bell

“Cut & Paste” – Oscar

“Nothing’s Real” – Shura

“American Boyfriend: A Suburban Love Story” – Kevin Abstract

You can also check our other lists:

20 Favorite Videos

20 Favorite EPs

20 Favorite Albums and Mixtapes

Radar 2017

100 Favorite Tracks

In this video, you can see Oscar having fun in a lot of different situations. The track sounds even more fun now and we would love to join Oscar for a party ! Talking about parties, he will be playing next week with Bloc Party at La Madelaine in Brussels and you’ll see our pretty faces there !

For his album, you can check the tracklist below and pre-order it here

1) Sometimes
2) Be Good
3) Feel It Too
4) Good Things
5) Only Friend (feat. Marika Hackman)
6) Breaking My Phone
7) Daffodil Days
8) Fifteen
9) Beautiful Words
10) Gone Forever

[su_dropcap style=”simple”]2[/su_dropcap]015 came to an end, but the year was definitely rich of new talents. Every week, we introduced you to a “Newcomer” we wanted to highlight. Before starting this brand new year, which we hope will be as good as the previous one for music, we would like to do a share a playlist of all of our previous Newcomers.

From Brazil to Australia and Sweden to South Africa or from Indie to Electro and Pop to RnB our Newcomers were very diversified and came from all over the world.

Listen to the full playlist including one song of each newcomer.
Including Reece‘s single “Don’t Go” which was in the 47th position of our Top 100 of the best tracks of the year. But also Gourmet who just released his debut album “Cashmere” and many more artists to discover.

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Hope you liked them and keep an eye on them, as 2016 might be their year as many of these newcomers are ready to release new content in the following months.
Get ready !

Read our Newcomer of the week articles here.

This video was recorded on October 5 at the time when he was touring in the US. Radio host John Richards could ask him the main theme for “Beautiful Words”. Oscar responded very kindly “A bad relationship”.

Here is the tracklist of this performance :

1) Beautiful Words
2) Daffodil Days
3) Stay
4) Breaking My Phone

Is there something going on with phones lately ? Since Adele, they are becoming more famous than ever ! We hope Oscar will resolve his problems with his phone. In the meantime, he will be releasing his debut album most likely next year and we can’t wait !