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OH WONDER
release surprise new album
22 BREAK

Alongside short film

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Oh Wonder have today released their beautiful surprise new album, 22 Break, alongside a stunning short film accompanying the record in full. The band have also confirmed a global, online broadcast of their recent London show at The Albany (which sold out in seconds and will take place on their YouTube at 6PM BST on October 14th. A 52-date world tour for 2022 is on sale now, following an eventful period for the unique London duo (who scored back-to-back top 10s with 2020’s ‘No One Else Can Wear Your Crown’ album, on top of 2.7 billion streams and 1.7 million adjusted album sales).

LISTEN TO OH WONDER’S NEW ALBUM 22 BREAK

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22 Break is the soundtrack to a band (and couple) almost broken – but ultimately made – by the pandemic. It’s a personal, powerfully honest account of those universal breakup themes (loneliness, inadequacy, resentment, fears for the future) as heightened by making music from your shed in lockdown. In the pandemic’s early phases, Anthony and Josephine worked hard to fill the void created by 2020: Anthony even decided to open a coffee shop in Peckham (the gorgeous, meticulously designed Nola), which soon saw round-the-block queues and put many of their touring crew back in work. As they started working on new music, however, all the unspoken tensions between a pair who’d never really known a relationship outside of the band tumbled out. Ultimately, though, the album that almost ended Oh Wonder proved to be the making of them: 22 Break is a cathartic, quietly hopeful project, the light at the end of the tunnel that was Oh Wonder’s quite particular pandemic. 

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Not many bands can make a break-up album that culminates in them tying the knot – but then again, Oh Wonder have never been like other bands. Coming out of 22 Break and all the soul-searching that it forced them to do, Josephine and Anthony got married in August this year. Whilst their relationship now has its own space to exist outside of Nola and Oh Wonder, the duo’s crossroads period has accidentally resulted in their most profound work to date. Opening up to their fans and each other, the ‘Make or Break?’ poised by 22 Break is not so much a question as an active choice – to be as honest as possible, to move forward, and to begin a brand new chapter in the story of Oh Wonder.

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OH WONDER’S 22 BREAK IS OUT NOW VIA DEW PROCESS / UNIVERSAL MUSIC AUSTRALIA

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