Watch: Soaked Oats – Pink Beach

Off the back of Soaked Oats debut album comes the release of the official music video for sublime album track, ‘Pink Beach’ featuring the gorgeous harmonies from Ōtautahi/Christchurch multi instrumentalist, Motte. Filmed by Oscar Mein’s brother, Jake Mein from sunrise to sunset, across two days in Cape Foulwind, Aotearoa/NZ. The video features Paul and Romilly Mein – Jake’s father and Jake’s child and edited by Oscar. Oscar reveals, “Jake told me he wanted to make a video for this song, and it didn’t take much to...

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Listen: Soaked Oats – ‘Headline Opinion’

Ōtepoti/Dunedin four-piece, Soaked Oats return with their call out track, ‘Headline Opinion’. Headline Opinion’ is the third single from Soaked Oats’ upcoming album, Working Title to be released November 18th, 2022. Lead vocalist and lyricist, Oscar Mein, comments pithily, “Headline Opinion is a song about the news. How we serve it, how we consume it, how we regurgitate it, how we serve it again and…” The track is accompanied with a video of old newspaper headlines and clippings compiled...

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Watch: Soaked Oats ‘Something’

Float away with the Dunedin four-piece’s blissful new chiller ‘Something’ – the second from their upcoming debut LP Working Title out November 18th. Watch the music video to ‘Something’ directed by Martin Sagadin below! A change in pace from first single ‘The Way It Works’, the dreamy downtempo track is yet another shining example of Soaked Oats thoughtful lyricism and guitar-driven indie-pop sound. Drummer Conor Feehly recalls the recording sessions, saying “‘Something’ was...

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Announced: Soaked Oats – Working Title + ‘The Way It Works’

Soaked Oats welcome you to their world and the way it works with their debut album Working Title out Friday, 18th November via Dot Dash / Remote Control Records. Written and recorded over the last eighteen months, the New Zealand four-piece group’s first full length album explores the contrasting ways we perceive and interact with the world, how we define ourselves through work, and the subtle shift from viewing objects in the world...

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Announced: Soaked Oats – Australian East Coast ‘Road Test Tour’

Aotearoa / New Zealand sludge-pop connoisseurs Soaked Oats have announced their return to the fine shores of Australia. With an arsenal of newly minted songs and ideas to share, the band are thrilled to present their endearing live show and road test new material this August. Finally returning to Australia after earlier tours were scuppered by the raging pandemic, you can catch Soaked Oats on their Australian jaunt in Brisbane, Sydney and Melbourne in August. Further tour details...

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Soaked Oats new EP Sludge Pop out now

New Zealand’s indie sludge-pop rockers Soaked Oats are on a high. After a massively successful summer tour of Australia and New Zealand and, having just returned from their UK tour, the band have released their new EP Sludge Pop – digitally and on limited edition 10″ multi-coloured vinyl via Dot Dash. Soaked Oats also reveal their most ambitious music video to date for ‘Don’t Chew‘ – premiered via Pilerats. Of the song itself, lyricist Oscar Mein shares “Inspired by the line...

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Introducing Soaked Oats

Meet Soaked Oats, our friends from across the ditch, and the latest signing to Dot Dash Recordings. They’ve announced their new EP Sludge Pop to be released 14 June. Hear the new single ‘Coming Up’, and take the scenic route through the video here. Soaked Oats have done a lot of time together. Last year, they embarked on a DIY US tour on an old and cheap RV with no...

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Watch: Soaked Oats – ‘Shuggah Doom’

After 24 months of touring and toiling, four piece kiwi band Soaked Oats release the first single ‘Shuggah Doom’ from their forthcoming EP! The single is accompanied by a music video that sneakily combines both literal and deeper meanings to the easy-going manoeuvres of the track. Watch below! The song was produced alongside Tom Healy at The Lab in central Auckland, and the video was shot by Jake Munro in the south Auckland Bombay Hills featuring...

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