Oscar Lang has shared a new single.
‘On God‘ follows on from ‘Everything Unspoken’ and ‘One Foot First’, and is the latest teaser from his new album ‘Look Now’, which arrives on 21st July via Dirty Hit.
“My mum committed suicide when I was seven years old and for years, I really didn’t think about it too much,” he explains. “I think as a seven-year-old, you don’t process much really.
“Within a couple of hours of being told that my mum had died, my dad was going ‘you can do anything you want, whatever you boys want to do, you can do’, so I said I wanted to go play mini golf. Within four or five hours after being told my mum had died, I was smashing holes-in-one on a mini golf course and having fun, you don’t really process it as a seven-year-old. But things like that, you don’t realise the severity of it and what it means to you and I didn’t for ages and just got on with life.
“When I went through this break-up, as much as my dad was there to help me, and to comfort me and be there for me, all I really wanted was a hug from my mum. I wanted my mum to come in and go ‘can I make you a cup of tea?’, just be there, it’s where I really felt I missed this motherly presence in my life. In the last year, it really has dawned on me how I really miss this side of my life that I wish I could have had, having a mum around.”
Check out the single below.
Catch Oscar on tour this August, too:
AUGUST
10 Manchester, The Deaf Institute
11 The Bodega Social Club, Nottingham
12 Hyde Park Book Club, Leeds
13 Glad Café, Glasgow
16 Komedia, Brighton
17 Omeara, London
18 The Louisiana, Bristol
