Stream: Oscar, ‘Share’ and ‘Beautiful Words’

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Oscar (Photo by Clare Shilland)
Oscar (Photo by Clare Shilland)

Twenty-three-year-old Oscar Scheller, aka Oscar, busted out of his London bedroom with a bunch of laptop recordings that didn’t sound like laptop recordings, and a melodic, melancholic romanticism that suggests he’d spent a lot of time in that bedroom alone practicing his baritone. He cites influences as diverse as Britpop, ’90s East Coast rap and the Radio Dept., but the songs on his beautiful “Beautiful Words” EP lean toward the former, and the ’80s New Wave that preceded it. You can hear some of the Human League in the title track, and “Stay” could soundtrack your rainy-day mopery. The U.S. release of the EP includes “Daffodil Days,” the highlight of the seven-song bouquet. “Beautiful Words” was released via the U.K.’s Wichita Recordings (current home of FIDLAR and Girlpool, among many others, and onetime home of L.A.’s Giant Drag and Best Coast). Wichita is celebrating its 15-year anniversary with some bicoastal shows, and Oscar headlines the L.A. date on Oct. 8 at the Bootleg Theater.

||| Stream: “Share”

||| Watch: The videos for “Beautiful Words” and “Daffodil Days”

||| Live: Oscar performs at the Wichita Recordings 15-year anniversary celebration on Oct. 8 at the Bootleg Theater, supported by Los Angeles Police Department and TV Girl.