Ten tracks. One long night. The debut album from Oleanderia is out now on Formwave Studio.
Oleanderia’s debut album Underpass is available now on Spotify, Apple Music, Tidal, and Bandcamp. Physical editions on vinyl and CD ship via Elastic Stage. HiFi lossless downloads are available exclusively through Bandcamp.
There are records made quickly and records made carefully. Oleanderia’s debut album Underpass is the second kind. Two years in the making, entirely self-produced, played on three named guitars — Jane (a Fender Stratocaster Custom), Honey (a custom instrument by Wood Shop Rocks), and Whiteboard (a custom bass built by FORM) — this is an album built without shortcuts and without compromise.
Underpass does not rush. It does not explain itself. It arrives the way certain nights arrive — quietly, with full intention, and on its own terms.
The record draws its emotional language from a very specific place: the late 90s British and European underground. Hooverphonic. Massive Attack. Portishead. Moby. Zero 7. That era of trip hop when beats sat low in the body and melodies never quite resolved. FORM, the musician behind Oleanderia, came of age listening to exactly that music — in dark English winters, in ancient cathedrals, in studios and pubs and late nights that were quiet, painful, and formative in equal measure. That sound became a native language. Underpass is what fluency sounds like.
This is not nostalgia. It is something more honest than that.
Oleanderia’s debut album Underpass moves through a single night across ten tracks. The sequence is deliberate. Voice, Hush, Morning, Wires, Split, Unless, Anymore, Under, Dissolve, Night. Read as a list, it sounds like fragments. Heard in order, it moves like weather — slow pressure building, shifting, never quite breaking.
The album opens on restraint. Voice establishes the world without announcing it: minimal, controlled, present. Hush deepens the atmosphere. By the time Morning arrives, the listener is already inside something.
The middle of the record — Wires, Split, Unless — is where Underpass earns its tension. The production tightens. The emotional distance that defines Oleanderia’s aesthetic becomes not coldness but precision. These are tracks that understand the difference.
Anymore and Under carry the late-night weight of the album’s second half, and then Dissolve does exactly what its title promises. Night closes everything. Not with resolution — Underpass does not offer resolution — but with recognition.
As FORM has said of the record: “The record does not offer resolution. It offers recognition.”
That is the whole thesis.
Every guitar part on Oleanderia’s debut album Underpass was played on one of three instruments FORM knows by name. Jane, a Fender Stratocaster Custom, carries the melodic weight across the record. Honey, a custom guitar built by Wood Shop Rocks, brings texture and character that no production-line instrument could replicate. Whiteboard, a custom bass built by FORM through Formwave Studio, sits beneath everything — felt more than heard, in the way the best bass always is.
The album is entirely self-produced. No outside producers. No committee decisions. The world of Underpass belongs to one person who knew exactly what she was building and took two years to build it correctly.
“This record doesn’t try to impress you. It just sits there in the dark and waits. By the third listen I couldn’t turn it off.”
★★★★★ — Maya T., London
“Finally something that sounds like 2am actually feels. Every track on Underpass is its own kind of quiet emergency.”
★★★★★ — Ren K., Berlin
“The production is so controlled it almost hurts. Nothing is wasted. This is what restraint sounds like when it’s actually confident.”
★★★★½ — Dias M., Manchester
“I put it on while walking home late and the whole city looked different. That’s the only review I have.”
★★★★★ — Sam B., Bristol
“Oleanderia sounds like she’s been making records for twenty years. This debut has more stillness in it than most artists find in a career.”
★★★★★ — Priya N., Amsterdam
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Oleanderia’s debut album Underpass is available in every format.
Stream: Spotify · Apple Music · Tidal
Download (HiFi / Lossless): Bandcamp
Physical — Vinyl and CD: Elastic Stage
Watch: YouTube
Oleanderia is the project of FORM, a musician who came of age between England and France during years that were quiet, painful, and formative in equal measure. Late nights alone or with close friends in dark English winters, playing guitar inside ancient cathedrals, recording in an English studio, performing live where the Beatles once played. The kind of years spent mostly inside your own head, feeling everything and saying very little.
Those were also the years FORM was listening obsessively to Hooverphonic, Massive Attack, Portishead, Moby, and Zero 7. That music became the emotional language of that period, and it never left.
Oleanderia is what happened when those two things finally converged. The project took two years to build, drawing directly on the mood and texture of late 90s trip hop and early underground electronic music — not as nostalgia but as a native language. The sound is minimal, nocturnal, and unresolved. Beats that sit low in the body. Melodies that don’t quite close. Atmosphere that prioritises mood over statement.
Underpass is the first full articulation of that world. It was made for listeners who live deeply inside their own experience and rarely talk about it. People who understand that restraint carries its own kind of weight.
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