OEA, the debut LP from Cafe Racer’s Adam Schubert under the new moniker Ulna, is all about reinvention. Naming his first post-Ruins project after the bone in his body he broke as a kid that led him to pick up a guitar in the first place, the record itself was inspired by a recent decision to get sober. “You have to reinvent your whole personality, you have to be a different person,” he shares in a press release.”Who am I if I’m not the crazy drunk dude who’s doing drugs in the bathroom?”
The record’s first single replicates this new sense of calm in Schubert’s life, stripping down the full-band sound of Cafe Racer for something acoustic and a bit bar-room-y with an Elliott Smith–like bounce. “OEA” also arrives with a video, setting the lonesome track to a visual of Schubert feeling the track’s lyrics all by himself on the beach. “This song is about going through the motions and living life like a curse,” he shares. “It’s a song I wrote during my first few months of sobriety.”
Watch the clip below, and pre-order OEA here.
