Soaked Oats are 'Coming Up' - and over to the UK!

Words: Ellie Ward 

Before they embark on a July home territory tour, New Zealanders' Soaked Oats will be heading to the UK to play The Great Escape next week on May 10 and 11. There is also a London date pencilled in on May 13 at Servant Jazz Quarters.

While we can't wait to get an answer as to what the sludge-pop crew's previous song 'Shuggah Doom' was all about, there's a new song 'Coming Up' to get into.

It comes ahead of their new EP 'Sludge Pop', to be released digitally and on 10" vinyl on June 14 via Dot Dash.

“I had just written the first half of the lyrics as a poem. I was trying to personify a low morning in the immediate surroundings of a bedroom," says lead singer/songwriter Oscar Mein on 'Coming Up'. "Henry (Francis, guitarist) sent through a demo he had done titled ‘coming up from behind’, and I started playing around with applying the poem to the song while working within the title he had given it. I wrote the last few lines in a more positive headspace with (producer) Tom Bell at Chicks Hotel where we recorded it.”

Watch the accompanying video to 'Coming Up', directed by Jake Munro, below.