Oscar Lang shares new single "One Foot First"

The latest single is the second to be taken from Oscar Lang's forthcoming album – and first solo venture since 2021 – Look Now. It includes production from Rich Turvey (The Coral, Blossoms), and was written and recorded in Liverpool.

“This spawned when I was in a really dark place. It was at the Airbnb in Liverpool. I was in a really dark headspace, it was pissing it down with rain in Liverpool, freezing cold, we'd finished the studio early and I had a lot of time by myself. My thoughts were really dark. There was a balcony in this Airbnb and I would stand out there having a cigarette and watched as I dropped a cigarette and imagine it was me," says Lang. "I came into the studio the next day and decided I wanted to write a song about all the things I've been thinking but personify them in other people. And especially as I've been hurt a lot as a victim of somebody that had been affected by suicide, that's why the chorus is about if I could go, I’d disappear and not hurt anyone. Because in my mind, I had all these dark thoughts but also I knew how much it hurt people and I knew the effect that it had on people because I've been affected by myself.”