OneRepublic announce new album ‘Artificial Paradise’, out July 12th
OneRepublic just announced they will release the new album, Artificial Paradise, on July 12. It is the “Counting Stars” group’s first project since 2021’s Human. In an Instagram post soundtracked with a clip of the album’s title track, singer Ryan Tedder writes that the genesis of the album began in 2016.
"Artificial Paradise technically started with a song called West Coast that we started in a hotel room in New Orleans in 2016. That song led to a series of others over the last eight years that didn’t quite make sense together, but we kept collecting songs and we kept writing; as we do, in different hotel rooms and studios dotted around the world.
The shape of a new album started taking place and so much of the lyrics, and so many of these songs were written in the last couple years while we navigated a world, full of artificial stories and constructs and paradise - all around the world and people’s digitally broadcasted lives and the lives that we create for ourselves and the stories that we tell ourselves and others.
And as we continue to talk about this new paradigm, the phrase ‘artificial paradise’ kept coming up over and over and over again. And it just feels all too resonant with the world we currently live in, and the aspiration of so many people, for better or worse.
Amidst all of that artificiality, we are trying to find real connection and real love, and a real story."
- Ryan
About OneRepublic
GRAMMY nominated OneRepublic, is comprised of singer/songwriter and lead vocalist Ryan Tedder, guitarists Zach Filkins and Drew Brown, keys Brian Willett, bassist and cellist Brent Kutzle, and drummer Eddie Fisher. The band released their debut set Dreaming Out Loud in 2007. The release included the 20mm selling smash single “Apologize,” which shattered digital sales and airplay records worldwide and received a Grammy nomination. The band’s sophomore album, 2009’s Waking Up, produced the hit singles “All the Right Moves,” “Secrets” and “Good Life.” The certified-platinum album Native followed in 2013, featuring the No.1 hit and 41 million selling single “Counting Stars.” OneRepublic released Oh My My, their fourth full-length album in 2016. OneRepublic has amassed 5B streams on Spotify to date. OneRepublic’s latest album, Human, dropped on August 27, 2021. It features singles, which combined have over 2.5 billion global streams: “Someday,” “Run,” “Somebody To Love,” “Wanted,” “Didn’t I,” “Better Days” and “Rescue Me.” At the end of 2023, OneRepublic released “Dear Santa,” for the Holiday season. Earlier in the year, OneRepublic released “Runaway” and “Mirage (for Assassin’s Creed Mirage),” the first new tracks the band released since their smash hit, “I Ain’t Worried,” which was featured in the blockbuster hit, Top Gun: Maverick. Since then they've released key singles "I Don't Wanna Wait" feat. David Guetta & "Nobody (from Kaiju No.8)" that is the outro song for hugely popular Anime Series Kaiju No.8; and have featured on new music with Meduza.
