Oli Swan is a songwriter and multi-instrumentalist based in Suffolk, UK. Both of Oli’s previous EPs had multiple plays from Angelle Joseph (BBC Introducing in Suffolk) - including a Single of the Week spot - as well as spins from Tom Ravenscroft (6 Music), Gary Crowley (BBC London), and Shell Zenner (Amazing Radio). 'All My Friends Are Lonely' also had multiple plays from Jack Saunders during his Future Artists tenure, and French radio station Oui FM.
Aliens Are Real is the latest single from Oli's upcoming album Paradise Forever. It was recorded in Oli's own studio - Sugar Town Recordings - which he runs with collaborator Jean Stevens. Aliens Are Real was originally written in response to the sighting of a new comet bearing Oli’s name (“C/2025 R2 SWAN”) and the conjecture over whether it may, in fact, be an alien spacecraft. It has already garnered praise from Avi Loeb, head of Galileo, Harvard's E.T. Search Project.
As well as writing and recording his own material, Oli has worked with many other artists, including co-writing and co-producing Robbie Williams' recent single 'Lost'. In addition, he's recently been recruited to join Nick Hodgson’s (Kaiser Chiefs) new outfit, Everyone Says Hi, who’ve just released the first single from their new project and are busy touring as we speak!
Oli says - "I wrote Aliens... very quickly as a bit of fun. Past me would have probably been wary of it as being too silly but I don't feel that way now. I like humour in music and it's just as valid as any other form of expression in my opinion. I got quite obsessed with all of the recent US government disclosures relating to UFO's/UAPs and have always been fascinated by the UFO thing, both for the phenomenon itself and for all of the wild characters that are involved in the community. What could be cooler than discovering life outside of Earth?! Obviously, the track references that stuff and the possibility of being alive during the age of disclosure, but it's also about the fear of growing strange and isolated as a human-being in the modern world. I think there are a lot of forces pushing people in that direction at the moment, and the prospect of terrestrial aliens is much more frightening than extra-terrestrial ones. At least it is for me"
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