Oslo

Song Notes

“Oslo” track features guest vocals from Démira. Tim Wheeler speaking of the song to NME in August 2023:

“I guess It’s an in-between song. I was getting to the end of being in New York and I was ready to move after 15 years. I didn’t know quite where life was going to take me at the point where I was writing the song. But I did want to come back to Europe, so that song has that in there.”

Tim Wheeler speaking to Talkhouse podcast in December, 2023 said of the track:

When I first wrote it, I played it to Mark and he was the one who said, “Oh, this should be a duet.” And I was like, “Oh, yeah, we’ve never done a duet.” But I was like, “Yeah, you’re right. This song is perfect for that.” I knew Demira in New York and I had heard her sing and thought her voice was so cool. I was like, “I think I know the perfect person for this.” So she came to the studio and did it, and it was great. I guess we knew it was such a kind of romantic sweeping song that needed strings. My friend, Ilan [Eshkeri], we’ve done a lot of work with him and he’s done string arrangements for us before, and he wrote the string arrangement for “Oslo.” There were some other mixes of the track that were kind of quite heavy. At the chorus towards the end, it’s that sort of really slow and steady, heavy pace. We mellowed it out a little bit in the final mix, but it does get into kind of a good heavy groove at the end. So yeah, I thought it was a nice one.