Josh Oreo is releasing his new single 'Starcrawling'

Adelaide’s solo rock singer/songwriter Josh Oreo is releasing his lead single Starcrawling ahead of the release of his self-titled debut EP. 

Starcrawling is a song directed at the incongruent people epitomizing the whitewashed, banal society we live in. It is an accusation against those set to inherit the Earth and simultaneously a lecture, a depleted cry that everything is hopeless but also a love song to renegades. Starcrawling was mixed in the U.S. by American engineer Jeffro Lackscheide who fine-tuned the arrangement into a formidable performance.

The Josh Oreo EP was recorded throughout 2019 at the Adelaide Recording Studios with producer/co-writer Darren Mullan. The EP’s aggressive rock classicism is played by industry veterans Mark Meyer, Stuart Day and David Homes, with Darren Mullan providing pivotal keyboards. 

Having battled and beaten both two brain surgeries and anorexia, the themes of the Josh Oreo EP are survival, despair and indignation. Such themes validating the distorted guitars and indomitable drums. The feminine presence on ‘You’re My Pilot, Love’,’ Reward for a Kill’ and ‘Music for the Foreground’ helping to echo the wounded feel of the recording.

 At a glance, Josh Oreo is a rejuvenator of 90’s era Brit-rock and of literary merit, he is a rarity apprenticed to England’s Morrissey, and is somewhat a traditionalist; being dedicated to balancing a musical landscape heavy with homogeneous cookie-cutter albums and the ethics behind them, Josh Oreo cites Kristeen Young’s bold artistry, Smoking Popes unflinching vulnerability and Liam Gallagher’s self-assurance as his influences. 

With his eye on assembling the players for some live shows in 2020 and further recording, Josh Oreo is raring to make his mark. With the wind in his sails his self-titled EP charts a course to challenge Rock’s Goliaths.