OH WONDER ANNOUNCE NEW ALBUM ULTRALIFE

ULTRALIFE TO BE RELEASED JUNE 16TH – AVAILABLE NOW FOR PRE-ORDER

BRITISH DUO SHARE NEW ALBUM TRACK “LIFETIMES”

PERFORMING AT COACHELLA FRIDAY APRIL 14TH & 21ST

Oh Wonder have just announced the release of their sophomore album, Ultralife, on June 16th. The album is now available for pre-order HERE, and arrives with a preview of another song from the album, “Lifetimes,” which fans can listen to HERE. Released last week, the duo’s new single, “Ultralife” has already amassed over 1.1 million streams on Spotify. Oh Wonder will be performing at Coachella April 14thand 21st before setting out on a US Tour. Complete Ultralife tracklisting and US Tour Dates below.

PRE-ORDER ULTRALIFE - OUT JUNE 16TH
 
LISTEN AND SHARE: “LIFETIMES” AND “ULTRALIFE”
 
DOWNLOAD OH WONDER PRESS MATERIALS HERE
 
ULTRALIFE LP TRACKLISTING
01. Solo
02. Ultralife
03. Lifetimes
04. High On Humans
04. All About You
05. Heavy
06. Bigger Than Love
07. Heart Strings
08. Slip Away
09. Overgrown
10. My Friends
11. Waste
 
OH WONDER US TOUR DATES
04/12 - Brooklyn Bowl - Las Vegas, NV
04/13 - The Glass House - Pomona , CA
04/14 - Coachella - Indio, CA
04/17 - Ace Of Spades - Sacramento, CA
04/18 - Ace Of Spades - Sacramento, CA
04/19 - The Catalyst - Santa Cruz, CA
04/20 - The Lobero Theater - Santa Barbara, CA
04/21 - Coachella - Indio, CA
05/19 - El Plaza Condesa - Mexico City, Mexico
05/23 - Town Ballroom - Buffalo, NY
05/24 - Upstate Concert Hall - Clifton Park, NJ
05/26 - Higher Ground - Burlington, VT
05/27 - Boston Calling Festival - Boston, MA
05/28 - The Stone Pony - Asbury Park, NJ
 
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In an era in which pop careers require careful planning, Oh Wonder are an anomaly. They’re a band formed by accident not design, a duo who didn’t intend to play live but spent more than a year touring the world, and a major label act who never saw this being anything other than a DIY project.
 
Ultralife is both Oh Wonder’s extraordinary second album and their debut proper. Its eponymously-titled predecessor, released in late 2015, was a collection of songs they had posted online at the rate of one a month, which millions of listeners fell in love with, turning London-based Josephine Vander Gucht and Anthony West into reluctant pop stars. Now their first album is fast approaching half a billion streams - a happy accident indeed.
 
“We’ve never pushed this project,” says Josephine. “It has always felt like it’s pulling us along. We initially put our songs on Soundcloud hoping to pitch them to other artists. What happened next surprised us as much as anyone. Almost from the moment we began, we felt a connection with fans.”
 
Three months in to their song-a-month challenge, they had established an international audience who were attentively awaiting new music on the first of each month. As their success snowballed, labels came calling, but they refused to sign. By the time some of their songs had racked up tens of millions of plays, the pair finally conceded that they were a band.
 
After self-releasing 15 of their songs as an album, Oh Wonder bowed to pressure to play live, booking just four shows – in London, Paris, New York and L.A. – planning to head straight back to the studio they’d built in a room at the bottom of Josephine’s parents’ garden. When all four gigs sold out within a week they were inspired to tour, ending up crossing the States several times, finding fans as far afield as South America, Australia, Russia and Asia. It culminated in 162 shows in 14 months across 112 cities, and a mighty 83,000 tickets sold. A connection.
 
The perennial underdog might just be about to become the odds-on favourite. Written in New York and London and entirely composed, produced and mixed by the duo, Ultralife takes the hallmarks of the band’s experimental debut – its hypnotic dual vocals, its exposed, emotional lyrics, its bewitching, ethereal beauty – and adds the weight of experience, the confidence of success and the coherence that comes from forward planning.
 
Rather than rely on computers, Ultralife boasts lots of live instrumentation, including drums and bass, as well as Anthony’s collection of analogue synths, which are central to the songs’ warm, sensual sound. Some of the album, including the strings, was recorded at The Pool in Bermondsey, but most of it was made in the pair’s home studio, where they had to work around TFL’s bus timetable.
 
“Our studio is on a busy main road, on the corner of two bus routes,” explains Anthony. “Whenever we’d start recording, another bus would go by. We couldn’t do vocals before 10pm.”
 
“But some buses do sneak in,” reveals Josephine. “The album opens with a bus, an ode to the fact that the entire album was compromised by London transport. There’s also a police siren from New York, where we had the same problem with traffic.
 
“We could have made our lives easier by going to a studio with soundproofing, but that isn’t us. Our lives are in these songs and it didn’t feel fair to leave the night buses out.”
 
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.
 
 
 
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April 8, 2017 4:18am ET by Republic Records  

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