UK artist Oliver Marson shares new single / video, "Andalusian Girl"

UK artist Oliver Marson shares new single / video, "Andalusian Girl"

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"Spiked with melodrama" - Brooklyn Vegan

"Filled with atmospheric tension" - RGM Magazine

"Oliver Marson is ready to tear down the Establishment, one elegant note at a time." - Post-Punk.com

 

"The song is a satiric take on a lads holiday gone wrong. It involves a toxic male character, a city type that tries to impress a woman through sheer bravado and showing off in a night club, oblivious to the fact she has no interest in him whatsoever. The lyrics are tragic, comic and dark. Recorded and wrote it at home during the pandemic." -Oliver Marson

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Having teamed up with Jorge Elbrecht (Sky Ferreira / Japanese Breakfast) and Joshua Rumble (Black Country, New Road) to achieve this sound on his upcoming album and singles. Oliver Marson blends music from the 60s, 70s and 80s to create a catchy baroque pop sound. This is ludicrous music for ludicrous times and satire for life in late capitalism. Inspired heavily by the lyrical work of Alex Cameron in his parody of Toxic Masculinity and also the work of Jonathan Bree, Kirin J Callinan and John Maus. The tracks themselves feature Christina Lopez on drums, Charles Cave on bass (White Lies) and with some vocals from For Breakfast lead vocalist, Maya Harrisson.

Through promoter SC&P (Tempers, The KVB, Boy Harsher and Choir Boy), he has played shows with M!R!M, White Devil Disco, Ghum, Minimal Schlager and Silent Star in London, Paris, Manchester and Nottingham. Off the back of that, Marson is ready to release the music he has been making during the pandemic. Marson’s music is vibrant, exuberant, and unpredictable.

 

Why did I choose this? 

The album's title Why did I choose this? is a reference to the chorus of the opening track "Blue Dreams," which is a fantasy about Marson burning down the building of his mundane office job. This sets the tone for an album, which is about mistakes and bad life choices. It’s about reaching a point in your life where you ask yourself "how did I get here?" A dull career, a dodgy tattoo or a horrible hair transplant. The album tries to offer a release and an escape from life in mundanity.

What we get after the track’s opener is a set of day dreams written whilst being bored in office jobs and stuck at home during the pandemic. Sometimes satiric and sometimes very sincere, Marson tries to find a release from a confusing world that resembles something more akin to a Thomas Pynchon novel, which similarly involves characters that try to find meaning in a world which makes no sense. Is this some grandiose artistic statement or just a descent into madness?

 

Oliver Marson
“Andalusian Girl” (single)
(Self-Released)
Street Date: Oct. 28, 2022

 

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