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Stadium Cake

by Oh Pep!

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1.
Bushwick 03:11
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Wanting 03:10
3.
Crazy Feels 04:53
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Trouble Now 03:24
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Happenstance 03:24
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The Race 02:52
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7 Babies 03:01
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Afterwards 03:20

about

Stadium Cake marks the first time Oh Pep! recorded with a multi-track approach rather than recording live. They wanted to be completely open to new ideas and approaches, and to not confine themselves to preset conceptions of how the music should be made. "Doctor Doctor," the album's first single, is a pop song with elements of the unexpected, revealing the band's interest in experimental and occasionally dissonant melodies as Hally sings "Where is the light, for me it's the darkest night." A sense of light and dark stitches together the tapestry of Stadium Cake, continually bringing a sense of tension to each song. It's heard in the texture of "Tea, Milk and Honey," as Hally sings with sparse accompaniment before the delayed entry of the band. That tension can also be heard in the jarring time changes of Emmerich's line in "The Situation" and "7 Babies."

"Our process really changes all the time, which is probably why we've done it for so long," Hally says of their songwriting. "There are definitely no rules about how we're going to write a song," adds Emmerichs.

Oh Pep! has been bringing their recordings to the stage for years, first trekking around Australia and then touring internationally since early 2015. They've performed at CMJ, SXSW and Nashville's Americana Music Festival, and for Seattle's KEXP and NPR's Tiny Desk. KCRW named Oh Pep! an artist who 'won' CMJ and NPR's Bob Boilen proclaimed that "the Melbourne band's music is infectious. Their harmonies are sweet, with lyrics that are thoughtful, deep, funny and poetic." In 2016, Oh Pep! will tour Europe for the first time supporting Lake Street Dive, and in North America with Nathaniel Rateliff & The Night Sweats and Lord Huron before making a triumphant return to Australia later in the year.

For Hally and Emmerichs, success is secondary to the actual creation of the music. They knew it was meant to be when they first dismantled a cover song together and their shared sensibility of strange, engaging approaches to music remained. Hally thinks back to that session that "it was possibly the worst idea we could have had, but the fact that we were both so excited about drastically changing this perfectly cohesive song said a lot about who we were and how we connected."

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released June 24, 2016

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Oh Pep! Melbourne, Australia

Olivia Hally and Pepita Emmerichs met in music secondary school in Melbourne, Australia, drawn together by a shared love of songs with no boundaries or expectations. The duo, now both 24, have since unveiled three EPs, but it's their debut album, Stadium Cake, that truly showcases Hally and Emmerichs' uniquely compelling collaboration. ... more

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