{"id":78008,"date":"2025-10-16T08:30:06","date_gmt":"2025-10-16T08:30:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/78008\/"},"modified":"2025-10-16T08:30:06","modified_gmt":"2025-10-16T08:30:06","slug":"listen-to-oliver-sims-radiant-new-single-telephone-games","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/78008\/","title":{"rendered":"Listen to Oliver Sim’s radiant new single ‘Telephone Games’"},"content":{"rendered":"

Oliver Sim<\/a> has released his new single \u2018Telephone Games\u2019. Listen below.<\/p>\n

The track follows \u2018Obsession\u2019 \u2013 released in August<\/a> \u2013 as some of the first music from the artist in three years, after his debut solo album \u2018Hideous Bastard<\/a>\u2019, which arrived back in 2022.<\/p>\n

Similarly to \u2018Obsession\u2019, the single harnesses a playful energy and sees Sim work with producer Bullion to carve out a confessional, electro-pop anthem.<\/p>\n

\u2018Telephone Games\u2019 comes alongside a chat line-inspired music video directed by Sharna Osborne, having already been teased by a slew of mysterious calling cards placed in phone boxes across London. Check it out below.<\/p>\n

In his time outside of music, Sim has been working on the rebooted JW Anderson\u00a0Resort\u00a0lookbook \u2013 starring in the project alongside the likes of\u00a0Saltburn\u00a0actress Alison Oliver, director Luca Guadagnino, and actors Joe Alwyn and Ben Whishaw.<\/p>\n

This is the first new music from Oliver Sim to not be produced by his longtime best friend, collaborator and bandmate\u00a0Jamie xx<\/a>.<\/p>\n

That being said, the two are still on great terms and are currently\u00a0underway with work on their long-anticipated fourth album<\/a>. The two of them also\u00a0reunited recently when Jamie xx took to the stage at the 2025 edition of LIDO Festival in London<\/a>, after appearing on the 2024 single \u2018Waited All Night\u2019 from his album \u2018In Waves<\/a>\u2019.<\/p>\n

Previously speaking to\u00a0NME\u00a0<\/a>on the red carpet at the\u00a02024 BRIT Awards\u00a0<\/a>about The xx\u2019s new music, Romy shared: \u201cWe\u2019re just keeping it really open and we\u2019re up for trying new things, but it sounds like us. That\u2019s all I can say right now.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019ve learned a lot from our different solo projects and it\u2019s cool to learn from each other again. We grew up together and we had a lot of experiences, but to then have time apart and learn new skills, get new musical ideas and experiences and compare them\u2026 it\u2019s been a healthy break.\u201d<\/p>\n

In September, it was revealed that the band would be playing Coachella 2026, after the festival surprise-dropped the bill for next year\u2019s instalment<\/a>, and later they shared footage of them rehearsing in preparation for their return<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Oliver Sim has released his new single \u2018Telephone Games\u2019. Listen below. The track follows \u2018Obsession\u2019 \u2013 released in…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":78009,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[873,874,146,85,46,409],"class_list":["post-78008","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-music","tag-dance","tag-electronic","tag-entertainment","tag-il","tag-israel","tag-music"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78008","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=78008"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78008\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/78009"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=78008"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=78008"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=78008"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}