Oli XL surfaced with his now cult classic album Rogue Intruder, Soul Enhancer – a fragmented pop album recalling the playfulness of Basement Jaxx as much as humorless glitch. His next album is Lick The Lens – a multi-part series.

It starts with Lick The Lens – Pt. 1: seven spectral songs, out today. Uniquely twisted patchwork samples, personal field recordings and playful melancholic pop vocals form opalescent menageries.

Self-produced, self-sung, self-shot, self-designed and self-aware, Oli XL is an architect of his own bubble – joined by trusted friends: Ouri, Ecco2k, Chanel Beads, james K, Valeria Litvakov and Iglooghost. Love and Pop, a collaboration with Chanel Beads, merges Oli’s distorted pop instincts with the band’s slow-mo lament. On a whim, Oli & Ouri shot a video, terrorizing Centre Pompidou.

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