Swedish post-rock powerhouse Oh Hiroshima return with new album »All Things Shining«; music video for first single »Wild Iris« streaming now!
Swedish post-rock duo Oh Hiroshima return with their fifth full-length album, »All Things Shining«, set to release on June 28th, 2024 via Pelagic Records.
Watch a music video for the first single and opening track »Wild Iris«!
Tracklist:
01. Wild Iris
02. Holiness Movement
03. Swans In A Field
04. Secret Youth
05. Rite of Passage
06. Deluge
07. Leave Us Behind
08. Memorabilia
Courtesy of Pelagic Records:
Sweden’s stalwart, slow burning post-rock outfit Oh Hiroshima have announced their forthcoming fifth full-length album, »All Things Shining«, due for release on the 28th June 2024 via Pelagic Records.
Now pared down to a brotherly core, the record sees Oh Hiroshima expand further into new sonic territory as they champion the power of wonder and awe in an age of faded youth and jaded disenchantment.
Founded over 15 years ago as a DIY post-rock recording project in Kristinehamn, Oh Hiroshima has steadily outgrown its Swedish hometown to become a highly regarded studio and live project within the international post-rock scene. With four diverse albums already to their name encompassing elements of shoegaze, electronica, post-punk and danceable indie-rock, »All Things Shining« represents a significant evolution in the band’s songwriting and soundcrafting.
Having found themselves a loyal fanbase as a four piece with their 2015 sophomore record »In Silence We Yearn«, the process of writing, recording and touring subsequent albums, 2019’s »Oscillation« and 2022’s critically acclaimed »Myriad«, the band gradually boiled down to brothers Jakob and Oskar as they continued to hone their songwriting and production skills.
Photos by Ellen Hemström and Oskar Nilsson
With »Myriad« a brooding kaleidoscope of thunderous drums, reverberating guitar feedback and ethereal synth sounds courtesy of Kristian Karlsson (Cult Of Luna, pg.lost, Soars), »All Things Shining« is Oh Hiroshima refining this complex sound further still. Already renowned for their command of panoramic, compositional atmospherics, this new collection of songs consciously leaves space for singer and guitarist Jakob’s lyrics and vocal delivery and brings a striking yet delicate tenderness to Oh Hiroshima’s formidable sonic palette.
Working again with Karlsson as keyboard player and co-producer, as well as fellow Cult Of Luna member Magnus Linberg who mixed and mastered »Myriad« too, the brothers embraced the challenge of their lineup change as a way to push themselves into uncharted creative space, to make the best of their tight knit bond. As such, »All Things Shining« wrestles with questions surrounding purpose, meaning and a generational ambivalence spreading across Western society.
Wasting no time, opening track and lead single »Wild Iris« gets straight to the point as the band’s most urgent and insistent work to date. A driving, half-time groove introduces Jakob’s seemingly innocuous opening line of “My friends are ordinary” before it’s turned into a cautionary tale against mediocrity by the resounding refrain of “It’s been way too long since lightning struck right through you” that brings with it a reinvigorated wave of Oh Hiroshima’s thunderous post-rock prowess. The accompanying video captures this latent crisis with a collision of dynamic live footage of the brothers in action against anonymous characters wasting away on a steady diet of nothing.
Simultaneously personal and universal, »Wild Iris« begins a sonic exploration of the duplicitous nature of ageing; the double edged sword of amassing life-affirming experiences that inevitably dim our perception of the world around us. However, as the album’s title suggests, Oh Hiroshima are adamant that all is not lost; with songs inspired by timeless works of literature pivotal for Jakob and Oskar throughout their lives, »All Things Shining« is a reminder that, against all odds, the world will always find a way to reclaim its spark and mystique.
»All Things Shining« is released 28th June, 2024.
»Wild Iris« is out now.
Jakob Hemström on »Wild Iris«: “This track goes straight to the point more than anything we’ve ever done before while still retaining our love for atmosphere. The lyrics are in the same vein, and the accompanying music video, created entirely by the band, aims to capture and expand both the lyrical and sonic aspects of the song.”
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Bojan Bidovc // music enthusiast, promoter, misanthrop and sometimes a journalist as well