Music

Hideous Bastard 2022

electronic, indie pop, pop 50 min 14 tracks Young

Hideous Bastard is the debut album by the xx singer Oliver Sim, released on 9 September 2022 by Young. The album was produced by Sim's bandmate Jamie xx. It was released with a short film directed by Yann Gonzalez, which premiered at the 2022 Cannes Film Festival. The album centers themes of queerness, including Sim's experiences with HIV.

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Character

Spare, contemporary, character-led and intimate.

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contemporarynostalgic
character-ledplot-driven

Tracks

1Hideous4:23
2Romance With a Memory2:58
3Sensitive Child3:02
4Never Here3:38
5Unreliable Narrator2:12
6Saccharine3:14
7Confident Man3:51
8GMT3:08
9Fruit3:24
10Run the Credits4:21
11Sensitive Child (Antidote live session)3:18
12Nancy Boy (Antidote live session)4:16
13Run the Credits (Antidote live session)4:15
14Fruit (Antidote live session)4:24

14 tracks, 50 minutes.

About the album

Artist: Oliver Sim
Label: Young
Released: September 9, 2022
Type: Album
Format: Digital Media
Country: XW

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