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MILD ORANGE
Share final taste
of forthcoming album
LOOKING FOR SPACE

Due THURSDAY FEB 10, 2022

‘OH YEAH’
Track and video
out now

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“New Zealand’s dreamiest indie-pop band” – MONSTER CHILDREN

“Mild Orange has mastered the art of making music for the nostalgic” – BILLBOARD

“you’re in good company with New Zealand Dream-Pop outfit Mild Orange.” – RAGE

“wonderful energetic summer bummer psychedelic rock” – ZAN ROWE, DOUBLE J

“dreamy” – TONE DEAF

“..tongue-in-cheek indie dream-pop” — RIOT MAGAZINE (UK)

“..a strong new voice” — AMERICAN SONGWRITER

“..sweeps listeners off their feet” — UNDER THE RADAR (NZ)

“A gem out of New Zealand… the most beautiful music I’ve heard lately.” – LYRICAL LEMONADE

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New Zealand’s dreamiest band Mild Orange today share the final taste of their forthcoming album Looking For Space – before its release on Thursday 10 February. ‘Oh Yeah’ is accompanied by a beautifully shot music video of a couple exploring the surf town of Biarritz, France.

Of the single, frontman Josh Mehrtens shares: “I wrote the lyrics to ‘Oh Yeah’ to be intentionally about nothing – but within nothing there is always something. In an art history paper I did at uni, there was a quote I came across, and sadly, I’m not sure who from but it went something like: “with art, there is always meaning”. This got glossed over in the lecture but it’s stuck with me for years now. Even the decision not to have meaning has a meaning. I love this irony and found it comical that you can’t escape meaning, so I wanted to write lyrics about nothing, which meant little to me at the time except just to purely feel good. That ‘something’ can become clearer once you look back on the seemingly nothingness you tried to evoke.”

“It was upon reflecting on the song that I realized these words had come from somewhere and could take on some kind of meaning, which is what the spoken word outro is about. I recorded/wrote that outro section improvisationally in one go a couple of months after the initial recording of the song. We wrote and recorded ‘Oh Yeah’ in Carters Beach, on the rugged West Coast of New Zealand at a beach house only separated from the ocean by a paddock with horses roaming in it. It was very laid back and surfy there, which is how the song sounds. We all recorded our parts very laid back and unassumed of what it would become. What does the chorus “oh yeah ah ah ah yeah uh” even mean? No idea, but it feels good to sing.”

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The ‘Oh Yeah’ music video was directed and filmed by Simon Levalois-Bazier in Biarritz, France shot entirely on Kodak 16mm film, starring his groovy friends, Evan and Clothilde. The band had put up an Instagram story looking for a film director for another project and Simon had reached out. Having been a Mild Orange fan for years, he was keen to contribute to the project. Simon is known for his epic surf and lifestyle videos on film which has been featured on Stab Magazine.

Mehrtens shares: “Like the meaning behind the song, it’s about something coming from seemingly nothing – it doesn’t need to make sense for it to feel good. The sonic surfiness goes hand in hand with Evan and Clothilde’s day in the surf town of Biarritz, and the lo-fi grit of the audio production is harmonious with the retro aesthetics in the film. I need to thank my dad for pushing for ‘Oh Yeah’ to be fully realised. It wasn’t going to be on the album, and probably would’ve been tucked away for ages, but he would play it everyday and nudge me multiple times a week to keep revising it and take the song more seriously. Thankfully for that push, we have this beautiful work to enjoy.”

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MILD ORANGE – ‘OH YEAH’
Single + Video Out Now
Listen now 

 Artwork credit: Simon Levalois-Bazer & Josh Mehrtens

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LOOKING FOR SPACE 
Out Feb 10 
Pre Order / Save here 

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