Premiere: OSKA Shares New Observe, “Refined Believer”
New Album Refined Believer Due Out on June twentieth by way of Nettwerk
Jun 18, 2025
Pictures by Ines Futterknech
Later this week, Viennese indie singer/songwriter OSKA is ready to share her sophomore album, Refined Believer. Arriving three years after My world, My love, Paris, her 2022 debut, Refined Believer iterates additional on OSKA’s winsome, coruscating artwork pop, as soon as once more encircling her wispy vocals in charming indie balladry and heat pop melodies. OSKA has been steadily sharing new singles from the file over the previous yr, returning most not too long ago together with her new tracks, “With Love, Your Clementine” and “Gloria”.
Immediately, she’s sharing an early hear on the album’s title observe, “Refined Believer, premiering with Below the Radar.
“Refined Believer” leans into OSKA’s quiet confessionalism, evoking the misty instrumental tones of artists like Lizzy McAlpine or Flower Face and the plainspoken intimacy of Phoebe Bridgers. Nevertheless, whereas the observe builds upon a sparse acoustic basis, OSKA steadily fills the echoing house with glimmering keys and ghostly backing vocals, ultimately crescendoing right into a poignant and emphatic finale. The manufacturing from David Kosten (Bat for Lashes, Marina Diamandis) makes the observe really feel each serene and impassioned, bringing a heat to OSKA’s vocals and a weighty thud to the percussion.
In the meantime, OSKA’s lyrics are an aching declaration of devotion, exploring the methods loving somebody can each make and break an individual: “You’ve been calling my bluff / Since we had been younger and simple to like / I’m nonetheless that child in your eyes / Beginning the struggle, then beginning to cry / However all my disappointment subsides / When your smile lights up the sky / Out into the ether / I’m a refined believer .”
OSKA says of the observe, “‘Refined Believer’ is about loving somebody so fiercely that even the toughest moments can’t shake your devotion. It’s concerning the magnificence and ache of emotional extremes – when one particular person can break you and raise you up in the identical breath. It’s one of the private songs I’ve ever written.”
Try the music under. Refined Believer is due out all over the place on June twentieth by way of Nettwerk.
