Taken from their forthcoming album ‘Everything, When Said Slowly’ (released via Absolute on Feb 7th 2025), The Ocelots (ft. twin brothers Ashley and Brandon Watson) have shared the video for their third album single ‘Australia‘. Tackling the personal theme of migration, and all the fears and hopes that entails, they set out to create a song people could also relate to.
“We tried to capture that feeling of leaving and dealing with the self-adjustment involved. A
certain apathy you grow to those you love around you when you know all you want to do is
move. In our pursuit of writing something honest and cathartic, we created something many people can relate to.”
The twins, having toured extensively around regional Australia and Tasmania, relate back to the number of people they met living there in search of work. ‘Australia’ highlights their reflections of their touring years as a folk duo.
“The song was the sum of scrapped and recycled parts, feelings and concepts. My first rule
was to write something uncomfortably honest no matter what, regardless of whether it’s
relatable. I’m an anxious sleeper, and sometimes I wake up dishevelled and the haziness
doesn’t clear till later in the afternoon. I started documenting that experience, dropping in
biographical clues into my songs.”
Recorded at Orphan Recording Studios in their hometown Wexford, created with
decade-long collaborators Cillian & Lorcan Byrne & Conor Cunningham, what feels like a song about leaving is inevitably a homecoming to a familiar soundscape.
Stream ‘Australia’ – Out Now: https://slinky.to/Australia
‘Everything, When Said Slowly’ is released via Absolute on Feb 7th 2025
Pre save: https://slinky.to/EverythingWhenSaidSlowly
TOUR DATES:
To celebrate the launch of the album, The Ocelots will perform live shows across Ireland, The UK, and Germany.
See them at:
IRELAND:
Feb 7 – The Jeremy Hynes Room – Wexford Opera House
Feb 8 – The Seantí – Waterford
Feb 12 – The Black Gate – Galway
Feb 13 – The Commercial – Limerick
Feb 14 – Whelan’s – Dublin
Feb 15 – The Duncairn – Belfast
Feb 16 – Sandinos – Derry
Feb 20 – Music in the Park – Kenmare
Feb 21 – Coughlan’s – Cork
Feb 22 – Levis’s bar – Ballydehob
Feb 23 – Prim’s Bookshop – Kinsale
UK:
Feb 26 – Newport (Le Pub)
Feb 27 – Frome (HydeAway)
Feb 28 – Worcester (St. Swithun’s Church)
Mar 1 – Birmingham (Sunflower Lounge)
Mar 2 – Sheffield (Cafe #9)
Mar 4 – Leeds (Oporto)
Mar 5 – Manchester (Castle Hotel)
Mar 6 – London (Green Note)
Mar 7 – Brighton (Folklore Rooms)
Mar 8 – Winchester (The Arc)
Mar 9 – Southbourne (Wight Bear)
Mar 11 – Cambridge (Portland Arms)
GERMANY
Jan 31st – Rough Trade Records Instore – Berlin
April13 – Bad Kotziting
April 23 – Hamburg
April 24 – Berlin
April 25 Leipzig
May 11 – Munich
May 15 – Cologne
More: https://theocelots.com/
May 17 – Dresden
May 18 – Frankfurt