{"id":843354,"date":"2026-08-04T15:28:10","date_gmt":"2026-08-04T15:28:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/843354\/"},"modified":"2026-08-04T15:28:10","modified_gmt":"2026-08-04T15:28:10","slug":"yaelokres-keath-osk-launches-new-solo-era-with-debut-album-foreword-and-experimental-single-and-the-hound","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/843354\/","title":{"rendered":"Yaelokre’s Keath \u00d3sk launches new solo era with debut album ‘Foreword’ and experimental single ‘And The Hound\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"

Yaelokre<\/a>\u2018s Keath \u00d3sk has launched a new solo era, announcing debut album \u2018Foreword\u2019 with the experimental single \u2018And The Hound\u2019. Check it out, along with live tour details, below.<\/p>\n

Set for release on September 4 via Atlantic Records (pre-order here<\/a>), \u2018Foreword\u2019 marks a new chapter for Keath \u00d3sk, and sees them re-record and reimagine the songs that they originally released under the Yaelokre moniker.<\/p>\n

While the original releases saw the Filipino-Icelandic singer-songwriter, illustrator, and multimedia creator lean into traditional acoustic indie-folk and mythological themes, the new versions under their own name and identity will see them push the boundaries of their sound.<\/p>\n

The subtle, intricate, otherworldly sound of the Yaelokre has been swapped out for a \u201cbeguiling, desert-noir brass backdrop\u201d, and generally there are more rich sonic landscapes in place.<\/p>\n

\"KeathKeath \u00d3sk \u2018Foreword\u2019 album<\/p>\n

The first preview of the album comes with the new version of \u2018And The Hound\u2019 \u2013 where the previously-delicate single becomes larger than life and more dramatic than ever before.<\/p>\n

\u201c\u2018And The Hound\u2019 has always been my favourite out of all of the songs that I released as Yaelokre,\u201d said \u00d3sk. \u201cI just kept adding more and more into it. I added more lyrics to it, I kept singing it differently every single time and I expanded it from that. It helped me a lot to stay creative, and I felt the need to honor it in this way.\u201d<\/p>\n

For the album, \u00d3sk worked with South London\u2013based writer, producer and composer Jack Hardman (a.k.a. Good Dog), and added more brass instruments, woodwinds, and nods to alt-pop, hip-hop, and jazz.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

They also recorded a cover of Bonnie Tyler<\/a>\u2019s \u201880s classic, \u2018Holding Out For A Hero\u2019.<\/p>\n

\u201cThese songs were written when I was a teenager,\u201d \u00d3sk explained. \u201cYaelokre started up quite abruptly, and I didn\u2019t have the resources to actually accomplish the songs in the way I wanted them to be. But now I\u2019m at a comfortable point in my life where I can have fun and input my personal style into it.<\/p>\n

\u201cI feel like it\u2019s a really good way to close the first chapter of Yaelokre and introduce me coming into music in my own right.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

The \u2018Foreword\u2019 tracklist is:<\/p>\n

\u2018Hartebeest\u2019
\u2018Harpy Hare\u2019
\u2018And The Hound\u2019
\u2018Neath The Grove Is a heart\u2019
\u2018My Farewells To The Fields\u2019
\u2018Bird Bage Blue And Yellow\u2019
\u2018Kid & Leveret\u2019
\u2018To Douse A Scalded Tongue\u2019
\u2018Kamahalan\u2019
\u2018Keath\u2019s Response\u2019
\u2018Hearken\u2019
\u2018Holding Out For A Hero\u2019<\/p>\n

Keath \u00d3sk will embark on a world headline tour kicking off October 7 in Europe, and dates on that leg include a slot at London\u2019s O2 Shepherds Bush Empire on October 29. This will be followed by a North American leg beginning November 9 in Orlando, Florida.<\/p>\n

Dates wrap up at the White Oak Music Hall in Houston, Texas on December 20, and you can visit here<\/a> for tickets.<\/p>\n

\"KeithKeith Osk. CREDIT: RYAN BLEWETT<\/p>\n

Keath \u00d3sk\u2019s world tour dates are:<\/p>\n

OCTOBER
7 \u2013 Gent, BE \u2013 Club Wintercircus
8 \u2013 Amsterdam, NL \u2013 Melkweg
9 \u2013 Hamburg, DE \u2013 Fabrik
11 \u2013 Prague, CZ \u2013 ARCHA+
12 \u2013 Berlin, DE \u2013 Hole\u2074\u2074
14 \u2013 Warsaw, PL \u2013 Progresja
15 \u2013 Krak\u00f3w, PL \u2013 Klub Studio
17 \u2013 Vienna, AT \u2013 Flex
18 \u2013 Munich, DE \u2013 CRAFT Veranstaltungs AG Nachtwerk
20 \u2013 Z\u00fcrich, CH \u2013 Dynamo
22 \u2013 Madrid, ES \u2013 Lula Club
23 \u2013 Barcelona, ES \u2013 Razzmatazz 2
25 \u2013 Paris, FR \u2013 Alhambra
27 \u2013 Bristol, UK \u2013 O2 Academy Bristol
28 \u2013 Birmingham, UK \u2013 O2 Academy 2 Birmingham
29 \u2013 London, UK \u2013 O2 Shepherds Bush Empire
30 \u2013 Leeds, UK \u2013 Leeds Beckett Students\u2019 Union<\/p>\n

NOVEMBER
1 \u2013 Glasgow, UK \u2013 Oran Mor Auditorium
2 \u2013 Manchester, UK \u2013 Manchester Academy 2
3 \u2013 Dublin, IE \u2013 The Academy
4-8 \u2013 Reykjavik, IS \u2013 Icelandic Airwaves 2026 \u2020
9 \u2013 Orlando, FL \u2013 The Beacham
10 \u2013 Atlanta, GA \u2013 Variety Playhouse
12 \u2013 Nashville, TN \u2013 Exit\/In
13 \u2013 Charlotte, NC \u2013 The Underground
14 \u2013 Pittsburgh, PA \u2013 Mr. Smalls Theatre
15 \u2013 Columbus, OH \u2013 Newport Music Hall
17 \u2013 Cleveland, OH \u2013 Globe Iron
18 \u2013 Washington, DC \u2013 The Howard Theatre
20 \u2013 Asbury Park, NJ \u2013 Asbury Lanes
22 \u2013 New York, NY \u2013 Webster Hall
23 \u2013 Philadelphia, PA \u2013 Union Transfer
24 \u2013 Boston, MA \u2013 Royale
25 \u2013 Toronto, ON \u2013 East End United
26 \u2013 Montreal, QC \u2013 Le Studio TD
29 \u2013 Chicago, IL \u2013 House of Blues
30 \u2013 Minneapolis, MN \u2013 Fine Line<\/p>\n

DECEMBER
2 \u2013 Denver, CO \u2013 Cervantes\u2019 Other Side
4 \u2013 Salt Lake City, UT \u2013 Soundwell
6 \u2013 Spokane, WA \u2013 The District \u2013 Knitting Factory
8 \u2013 Portland, OR \u2013 Crystal Ballroom
9 \u2013 Seattle, WA \u2013 The Showbox
11 \u2013 Vancouver, BC \u2013 Vogue Theatre
13 \u2013 San Francisco, CA \u2013 The Castro Theatre
15 \u2013 Los Angeles, CA \u2013 The Fonda Theatre
16 \u2013 Phoenix, AZ \u2013 Crescent Ballroom
18 \u2013 Austin, TX \u2013 Brushy Street Commons
19 \u2013 Dallas, TX \u2013 Echo Lounge & Music Hall
20 \u2013 Houston, TX \u2013 White Oak Music Hall<\/p>\n

\u2020 FESTIVAL APPEARANCE<\/p>\n

At the start of the year, Yaelokre featured on the NME 100<\/a> and was praised as a \u201cfolk-pop troubadour in their own land of make-believe\u201d.<\/p>\n

\u201cKeath \u00d3sk takes worldbuilding seriously. As Yaelokre, the Filipino-Icelandic songwriter, musician and illustrator makes folk-pop with a flair for the dramatic, fleshing out a fantastical, fictional story of four masked children in a world called Meadowlark,\u201d the entry read.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe lore runs deep, and that\u2019s the point \u2013 Yaelokre\u2019s intricate, absorbing universe welcomes fanart and cosplay, and listeners all over the world have obliged with fervour: their first world tour, which took them all over the US, UK and Europe last year, was sold out.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Yaelokre\u2018s Keath \u00d3sk has launched a new solo era, announcing debut album \u2018Foreword\u2019 with the experimental single \u2018And…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":843355,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[64,63,134,1770,11254,136],"class_list":["post-843354","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-music","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-entertainment","tag-indie","tag-live-music-news","tag-music"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/843354","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=843354"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/843354\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/843355"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=843354"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=843354"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=843354"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}