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Soaked Oats share new single and video ‘Headline Opinion’

29. Oct, 2022

Soaked Oats have released their third single ‘Headline Opinion’ from their much-anticipated album Working Title. Released on Friday 18 November by Dot Dash/Remote Control, Soaked Oats will throw an intimate, one-off gig at The Curtin on Thursday 17 November.

Soaked Oats lead vocalist and lyricist Oscar Mein shares the backstory to the tune. ‘Headline Opinion is a song about the news. How we serve it, how we consume it, how we regurgitate it, how we serve it again.’ The track is accompanied with a video of old newspaper headlines and clippings compiled by Mein gathered from decades of old microfilm.

With their debut album, Working Title, Soaked Oats delve wider into the worlds of their beloved songwriters, drawing influences from funk, psychedelia, electronica and hip hop to deliver their strongest piece of work yet. Written and recorded over the last eighteen months, the New Zealand four-piece group’s first full length album explores the contrasting ways we perceive and interact with the world, how we define ourselves through work, and the subtle shift from viewing objects in the world as fixed ‘things’, to experiencing them as processes and interactions unfolding.

Produced by Tom Healy (Tiny Ruins, Marlion Williams, The Chills), engineered by Tom Bell (David Kilgour and the Heavy Eights), and mastered by Christian Wright (Abbey Road Studios, Fontaines DC), the album delves into new sonic territory, with inspiration coming from 60’s psychedelia and dance-rock among others.

The majority of recording took place in a community hall in the remote township of Okuru, Haast, situated on the West Coast of New Zealand’s South Island where the coastal road ends at the foot of Mt. Aspiring National Park. Partly in response to that isolated landscape, Working Title has unfolded as a more introspective offering from a band that are known typically for their cheerful sound.