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A Los Angeles-based vocalist, producer, and sketch comedian,
Oliver Tree brings a colorful, scooter-loving persona to his indie pop- and hip-hop-informed dance music. He went viral in 2016 with "When I'm Down" before releasing his full-length debut, the Billboard-charting
Ugly Is Beautiful in 2020. Welcome to the Internet, a collaborative EP with
Little Big, appeared the following year.
Tree's sophomore album,
Cowboy Tears, arrived in 2022 and hit number seven on Billboard's Alternative Albums chart.
A native of Santa Cruz,
Tree emerged in October 2016 as a featured performer on the single "Forget It" by hometown EDM musician
Getter. That same month, he released his first collaboration with DJ
Whethan, the compassion anthem "When I'm Down." The song went viral, garnering millions of streams over the next year. A record deal with Atlantic followed, and in mid-2017
Tree issued the solo singles "Welcome to L.A.," "All I Got," and "Cheapskate." Another collaboration with
Whethan, "Enemy," saw release in September 2017 before his own single, "Upside Down," arrived the first week of 2018. Those tracks landed on his Alien Boy EP, which was released via Atlantic Records that February. He quickly followed with additional singles such as "Movement" and the rock-tinged "Hurt." 2019 brought singles like "Fuck" and "Miracle Man," the latter of which was included on
Tree's EP Do You Feel Me? His full-length debut,
Ugly Is Beautiful, arrived in June 2020 and included many of
Tree's previously released singles, as well as the spotlight tracks "Cash Machine," "Let Me Down," and "Bury Me Alive." In advance of a 2021 deluxe release of the album, he issued the single "Out of Ordinary" in February.
Welcome to the Internet, a collaborative EP with Russian ravers
Little Big, appeared the following year. It included the hit single "Turn It Up" (featuring
Tommy Cash). In February 2022,
Tree released his sophomore full-length album, the lightly country-influenced
Cowboy Tears, which featured production and songwriting contributions by
Whethan, Casey Mattson,
Travis Barker, and others. It hit number seven on both the Rock and Alternative Albums chart and number 60 on the Billboard 200. ~ Marcy Donelson