Premiere: OSKA Shares New Monitor, “Refined Believer”
New Album Refined Believer Due Out on June twentieth through Nettwerk
Jun 18, 2025
Images by Ines Futterknech
Later this week, Viennese indie singer/songwriter OSKA is ready to share her sophomore album, Refined Believer. Arriving three years after My world, My love, Paris, her 2022 debut, Refined Believer iterates additional on OSKA’s winsome, coruscating artwork pop, as soon as once more encircling her wispy vocals in charming indie balladry and heat pop melodies. OSKA has been steadily sharing new singles from the document over the previous yr, returning most not too long ago along with her new tracks, “With Love, Your Clementine” and “Gloria”.
Right this moment, she’s sharing an early pay attention on the album’s title monitor, “Refined Believer, premiering with Below the Radar.
“Refined Believer” leans into OSKA’s quiet confessionalism, evoking the misty instrumental tones of artists like Lizzy McAlpine or Flower Face and the plainspoken intimacy of Phoebe Bridgers. Nonetheless, whereas the monitor builds upon a sparse acoustic basis, OSKA steadily fills the echoing house with glimmering keys and ghostly backing vocals, finally crescendoing right into a poignant and emphatic finale. The manufacturing from David Kosten (Bat for Lashes, Marina Diamandis) makes the monitor really feel each serene and impassioned, bringing a heat to OSKA’s vocals and a weighty thud to the percussion.
In the meantime, OSKA’s lyrics are an aching declaration of devotion, exploring the methods loving somebody can each make and break an individual: “You’ve been calling my bluff / Since we had been younger and straightforward to like / I’m nonetheless that child in your eyes / Beginning the combat, then beginning to cry / However all my disappointment subsides / When your smile lights up the sky / Out into the ether / I’m a refined believer .”
OSKA says of the monitor, “‘Refined Believer’ is about loving somebody so fiercely that even the toughest moments can’t shake your devotion. It’s in regards to the magnificence and ache of emotional extremes – when one particular person can break you and carry you up in the identical breath. It’s one of the vital private songs I’ve ever written.”
Try the music under. Refined Believer is due out all over the place on June twentieth through Nettwerk.
