Oliver Keane has dropped his sophomore EP Motion Sickness. The impressive five track record is here with three brand new songs , M24, the EP’s title track Motion Sickness and lead single Hey.
Cathartic and honest, the release of Oliver Keane’s second EP marks a flagship moment in his progression. Lamenting life’s challenges with his instinctive songwriting, the record is an emotive dose of alternative guitar anthems that will leave you feeling much lighter. Sharing more Keane explained: “This EP was a long journey and each track was written at such a different part of my life, it’s almost like a scrapbook of the last 3 years.”
Oliver Keane
Cathartic and honest, the release of Oliver Keane’s second EP marks a flagship moment in his progression. Lamenting life’s challenges with his instinctive songwriting, the record is an emotive dose of alternative guitar anthems that will leave you feeling much lighter. Sharing more the singer explained: “This EP was a long journey and each track was written at such a different part of my life, it’s almost like a scrapbook of the last 3 years.”
Today’s new EP follows the release of Give Me A Reason which fans were treated to at the start of last month. The dreamy, self-produced track is a warm moment on the EP and followed on from euphoric and infectious Romeo which arrived in August. The two tracks have warmed up audiences ahead of today’s drop, scooping support in the process from tastemakers. BBC Introducing were also keen to support the track and invited him into the studio. Dean Jackson commented that Oliver’s music “keeps getting better and better and better”.
M24 is a tender, retrospective moment on the record that touches on navigating incompatibility. Sharing more, Keane said: “M24 is about my first girlfriend, who I had quite a messy breakup with and I think we both held resentment towards one another. In reality, we didn’t work because we were both ‘cut by the same blade’ and struggled with our emotions, and it’s finding the irony in the fact we hated each other for something we had in common.”
2024 has been Oliver Keane’s year. As an artist who is at home playing live, he kicked off this year by supporting Giant Rooks on their European tour, quickly followed by a UK tour with Sea Girls and just last month he opened for Good Neighbours too. Having already gained significant experience supporting the likes of The Snuts, GAYLE, Only The Poets and Rockshot Magazine favourites The Academic, his impressive live performance has gone from strength to strength. With each show, his fan base grows in real-time, pinning him as one of the UK’s most exciting new prospects.
Derby-born Oliver Keane has been making a name for himself as an emerging singer-songwriter, multi-instrumentalist and producer since he launched. In the run up to his debut EP 16mm Dream Sequence, he had already scooped much praise from the likes of Complex UK, Clash, Fault, Wonderland, Variance magazine and more. Not only that but he has a loyal fan base that continues to thrive across the globe with over 1.3M likes of Tik Tok and 60K followers across his social media accounts.
Having grown up in a house full of Pink Floyd, Led Zeppelin and Nirvana, Oliver’s sound was initially influenced by guitar music. He began learning to play the guitar himself at the tender age of 9 and it was quickly established that he had a special talent for making music, with a gift way beyond his years for writing lyrics. Later on, Oliver took to more indie leaning bands such as Catfish And The Bottleman which influenced his sound further, bringing it closer to what you hear today. From a young-age he has also been evolving his technical skills and has been writing and producing for other artists including Nieve Ella and Abby Roberts in recent months.
Sat on a wealth of impressive genre-bending indie/alt-pop, you won’t have to wait too long before Oliver Keane is a well known name.
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