Oli Spleen’s launched his second album Gaslight Illuminations in February this year.
He releases the third single from the album, Furnace this September. The B-side will be a cover of Brahms’ Hungarian Dance (Number 5).
Furnace the final track on the album, is describes as a “psychological rebirth after the spiritual and emotional decline and death of the preceding songs”.
In 2018 as a tribute to his recently deceased father, Oli recorded his second solo album Gaslight Illuminations. The album was a collaboration with members of Brighton band Birdeatsbaby and was inspired by the emotional fallout of a toxic relationship.
“A gloriously dark and haunting work, there are themes of growing older, life, death and mortality running throughout. In Gaslight Illuminations Oli Spleen has pushed himself further than ever and appears to have reinvented himself yet again.”
- Salena Godden author of Pessimism Is For Lightweights.
“With Gaslight Illuminations, Oli Spleen comes of age. Battle-scarred and world weary he may be, but Gaslight Illuminations is his most tender and personal collection to date. Touching on French chanson and Weimar cabaret, on death and loss, Gaslight Illuminations is a mesmerising work from an artist who has embraced his maturity.”
- Darryl W. Bullock author of David Bowie Made Me Gay, 100 Years of LGBT Music.
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