Past Perfect Continues, by Black Like Oil

Past Perfect Continues

by Black Like Oil

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1.	The Day I met You 02:52	buy track
2.	Happily Ever After 03:25	buy track
3.	One Shot 03:15	buy track
4.	The Aid 03:47	buy track
5.	Icarus 02:41	buy track
6.	Fading Away 01:42	buy track

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Black Like Oil's first EP, 'Past Perfect Continues', can be compared to a video store with soundtracks to episodes of our lives. That's why their songs, despite how different they are - some of them are melancholic, some are full of passion and energy - all are dreamy. Cinema is a dream factory, just like the 'past perfect continuous' - it offers you to plunge into the atmosphere of your favorite movies and feel like one of their characters.

Each song - each 'soundtrack' - of their EP has its own source of influence.

'Happily Ever After' plays with David Lynch's 'bad guys in leather jackets' breaking the hearts of young and dreamy girls.

'The Aid' - with images of Highlander, Terminator and David Bowie's Goblin King.

'Icarus' explores the duality of synthwave music, reactiveness and thoughtfulness - and looks back at Marty McFly's journey.

And, of course, there is a particular track inspired by Nicolas Winding Refn's 'Drive' - 'The Day I Met You' - but the influence of the film extends to the entire album.
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released December 14, 2023

Written by: Diana Baydalyuk, Kirill Belorussov, Oleg Saxonov
Produced by: Kirill Belorussov, Oleg Saxonov

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Black Like Oil Moscow, Russia

Black Like Oil is a collective that combines the experience of a tandem of two film composers and a singer-songwriter to bring the magic of the soundtrack to life. They are inspired by pop culture artifacts of the past - music, movies, visual retro aesthetics - experimenting with sound, searching for their own language, combining synthwave and nostalgic beats with unconventional forms. ... more

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