After more than a year, Melbourne R&B prince Oscar Key Sung is back. It’s not that he hasn’t been busy elsewhere – last year he gave us the brilliant Andras & Oscar LP Cafe Romantica with his buddy Andras Fox – but it’s been a while since we’ve been given a new track from his solo project.
It was worth the wait.
‘P R E M O N I T I O N’ is the first glimpse of his forthcoming EP entitled Altruisim, and it sounds like a lost FutureSex/LoveSounds cut produced by Fatima Al Qadiri at her most ominous. Oscar’s silky croon floats cooly, almost nonchalantly, above darting, siren-like synths, building handclaps and glitching background samples. It’s darker, sweatier, and bassier than anything we’ve heard from him in the past.
The producer-vocalist has been previewing the single at his club shows and festival appearances over the past couple of months, and it goes off in an IRL setting. The arm dance he does during the breakdown at the 1:34 mark needs to be seen to understood. Actually, I’ve seen it at least three times and I still don’t know how he does it.
Oscar Key Sung’s Altruism EP is due out April 10th via Two Bright Lakes.
