SLOW DANCER RELEASES NEW ALBUM 'IN A MOOD'

Slow Dancer - the moniker of Melbourne-based singer, songwriter and multi-instrumentalist Simon Okely today proudly releases his new album 'In A Mood' via Pieater and ATO Records. After revealing early singles 'Don't Believe', 'It Goes On' and 'I Would', Okely has received widespread acclaim from the likes of Stereogum, Noisey, NPR, Nylon and Billboard for his masterful songwriting, R&B-tinged production and soulful vocals.  

In support of 'In A Mood', Slow Dancer will bring his new album to life on July 6 in Melbourne, July 7 in Brisbane and July 14 in Sydney following recent Australian tours with Margaret Glaspy and Cameron Avery as well as select US and UK dates which included SXSW.  Okely will be joined by special guests Poppongene and Daggy Man. 

Simon Okely is lost in time. Or at least, his songs as Slow Dancer sound that way: warm, near-whispered indie-rock love letters to the 60s and 70s rhythm and blues records his parents would play on family car rides down Australia’s winding west coast, heavy on nostalgia and even heavier on imagination. His 2014 debut Surrender was a melt-your-heart, Fleetwood Mac-with-Neil Young licks “pop postcard” from another time, another place. Now returning in 2017 with In A Mood, Okely is aiming even higher, featuring a “more expansive, more ambitious” sound that’s “less about the stories we tell ourselves when in love and more about the moods that can come creeping over a relationship” at any time. It’s no wonder his music is already striking a chord with fans of Mac DeMarco, Tobias Jesso Jr, Connan Mockasin and more, with his latest single accumulating over a quarter of a million Spotify streams in just a few weeks.           

After moving to Melbourne in 2013, Okely began writing as Slow Dancer in 2014, naming the project after a lyric from a song on Surrender that was “essentially an instruction manual for slow dancing with someone who is experiencing apathy.” Key to the Slow Dancer sound is the environment Okely writes and records in: alone, entirely at night, in a bedroom that “somehow crams in a drum kit, a piano, some guitars, and a bed,” he laughs. “This has always been my journal, my love letter to the music I love. My concentration will always be on making the music that pleases me, and if it pleases other people too, that’s also great. It’s been a wonderful ride so far.”

Simon Okely is lost in time. You should get lost in time with him.

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'In A Mood' Australian Tour

Tickets

July 6 - The Gasometer Hotel, Melbourne

July 7 - The Milk Factory, Brisbane

July 14 - Oxford Arts Gallery Bar, Sydney