OH WONDER RELEASE SURPRISE NEW ALBUM, 22 BREAK, ALONGSIDE SHORT FILM
Global broadcast of sold-out London show confirmed (October 14th, 6PM BST)
Huge world tour on sale now
Listen to the album HERE
8 OCTOBER 2021 (TORONTO, ON) - 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).
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.
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.
2022 UK + IRE Tour Dates
03 MAR 2022 // GLAUVCLUB, MOSCOW
04 MAR 2022 // MORZE, ST PETERSBURG
06 MAR 2022 // CLUB HOLLYWOOD, TALLINN
08 MAR 2022 // HANZAS PERONS, RIGA
09 MAR 2022 // LOFTAS ART FACTORY, VILINUS
11 MAR 2022 // STODOLA, WARSAW
12 MAR 2022 // B17, POZNAN
13 MAR 2022 // KLUB STUDIO, KRAKOW
15 MAR 2022 // ARENA, VIENNA
16 MAR 2022 // ATELIER BABYLON, BRATISLAVA
17 MAR 2022 // AKVÁRIUM KLUB, BUDAPEST
19 MAR 2022 // ASTRA KULTURHAUS, BERLIN
20 MAR 2022 // AMAGER BIO, COPENHAGEN
21 MAR 2022 // ROCKEFELLER MUSIC HALL, OSLO
23 MAR 2022 // GROSSE FREIHEIT, HAMBURG
24 MAR 2022 // CARLSERK VICTORIA, COLOGNE
26 MAR 2022 // MAGAZINNI GENERALI, MILAN
27 MAR 2022 // LES DOCKS, LAUSANNE
29 MAR 2022 // BACKSTAGE WERK, MUNICH
31 MAR 2022 // TIVOLIREDENBURG - RONDA, UTRECHT
01 APR 2022 // AMSTERDAM, PARADISO
03 APR 2022 // LE TRIANON, PARIS
04 APR 2022 // ANCIENNE BELGIQUE, BRUSSELS
06 APR 2022 // DEN ATELIER, LUXEMBOURG
07 APR 2022 // O2 GUILDHALL, SOUTHAMPTON
08 APR 2022 // THE GREAT HALL, CARDIFF
09 APR 2022 // O2 ACADEMY, LIVERPOOL
11 APR 2022 // ROCK CITY, NOTTINGHAM
12 APR 2022 // SWG3 GALVANISERS, GLASGOW
14 APR 2022 // OLYMPIA THEATRE, DUBLIN
15 APR 2022 // O2 ACADEMY, LEEDS
17 APR 2022 // NEWCASTLE UNIVERSITY, NEWCASTLE
20 APR 2022 // O2 INSTITUTE, BIRMINGHAM
20 APR 2022 // O2 RITZ, MANCHESTER
21 APR 2022 // O2 ACADEMY BRIXTON, LONDON
22 APR 2022 // UAE, NORWICH
08 MAY 2022 // HISTORY, TORONTO, ON
10 MAY 2022 // MTELUS, MONTREAL, QC
11 MAY 2022 // HOUSE OF BLUES, BOSTON, MA
13 MAY 2022 // 9.30 CLUB, WASHINGTON, DC
14 MAY 2022 // THEATRE OF LIVING ARTS (TLA), PHILADELPHIA, PA
15 MAY 2022 // BROOKLYN STEEL, BROOKLYN, NY
17 MAY 2022 // THE VIC THEATRE, CHICAGO, IL
18 MAY 2022 // FIRST THEATRE, MINNEAPOLIS, MN
20 MAY 2022 // OGDEN THEATRE, DENVER, CO
21 MAY 2022 // THE DEPOT, SALT LAKE CITY
23 MAY 2022 // SHOWBOX SODO, SEATTLE, WA
24 MAY 2022 // VOGUE THEATER, VANCOUVER, BC
25 MAY 2022 // ROSELAND THEATER, PORTLAND, OR
28 MAY 2022 // FOX THEATER, OAKLAND, CA
29 MAY 2022 // HOUSE OF BLUES, ANAHEIM
31 MAY 2022 // THE WILTERN, LOS ANGELES
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