Love For One is the new EP from Olympia, out via her own record label Reach Around Records.
Olympia is having an incredible couple of months as an Australian artist, rocking out with Something For Kate at the AFL Essendon verses Collingwood ANZAC Day clash, launching her own record label Reach Around Records, and releasing new solo music for the first time since 2019’s monster Flamingo, with singles ‘Try Be Good’ and ‘Creep’.
Today the songbird has dropped the EP that the songs belong to, Love For One, with new single ‘Everybody Leaves’, as well as announcing three intimate shows in Melbourne, Castlemaine and Sydney to celebrate.
Love For One EP Launch Show Dates
- Thu 30 May – Toff In Town, Melbourne/Naarm – TIX
- Fri 31 May – The Bridge Hotel, Castlemaine/Djadjawurrung Land – TIX
- Sat 1 June – Low 302, Sydney, Eora – TIX
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Love For One is a capsule of songs from the singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalists time in London as the pandemic loomed and Olympia was motioning through her father’s passing. Recorded with long-time collaborator Burke Reid, the album centres on grief, self-discovery and female artistry.
The accompanying single ‘Everybody Leaves’ touches directly on Olympia’s fathers passing, leaving no areas of discomfort untouched. The music video, which was also released today, as directed by Alex O Smith, is a minimalist masterpiece, capturing the raw emotions of the song.
Olympia says, “It’s like sitting alone in an airport with the sound of people greeting each other echoing across the expanse of tiles. Of being stationary within a world of movement. Of planes looping around the globe and families reuniting and folding into their cars to go home and reconnect, while your heart is completely broken and you wish the world would just stop for a moment.”
Whilst an emotional raw journey as compared to Flamingo and the 2016 Self Talk, tracks on the Love For One EP are paired with percussive loops, Olympia’s signature melodies and metaphors coming together to build a unique world of candy floss, sticky carpets and tissue boxes by the bed.
This EP will translate impeccable in the live setting with Olympia opting for three intimate solo shows to share the songs from Love For One for the first time, before embarking on a full-band national tour later in the years. Playing Melbourne, Castlemaine and Sydney at the end of the month, Olympia will showcase some new and unreleased work, as well as treat you to some special surprise guests.
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