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<\/a><\/p>\nIridescent\u00a0cotton suit jacket by PAUL SMITH and red striped cotton t-shirt by MARGARET HOWELL<\/em><\/p>\n Taken from the Summer 15 issue of Wonderland:<\/em><\/p>\n The career of musician Oscar Scheller – an enviably strong-jawed Justine Frischmann replica from Kilburn, north London – didn’t get off to the best of starts. In fact, it was nearly over before it began. When in July of last year Oscar and his band played the KPH, a decrepit sewage pipe of a pub on Ladbroke Grove, the ceiling collapsed on the crowd, sending two gig goers to A+E. Though the incident didn’t affect Oscar’s blistering show – which ripped through his keyboard-grunge tracks \u201cSometimes\u201d and \u201cI Don’t Care\u201d – it could have cost him everything. “It was actually the night that got me signed” Oscar tells me on a mustard-yellow couch on Hackney Road. In attendance was Ben Wileman, head of cult London imprint Wichita Recordings, who signed the 23 year-old shortly after.<\/p>\n Wichita are known for carefully vetting their roster. Wileman and co. famously took a punt on Bloc Party’s debut LP Silent Alarm back in 2005, the soundtrack to a million indie discos to come. Set to release Oscar’s forthcoming EP, which he promises has a “grittier, gangster-rap edge”, they’ll strike gold again soon. While “Sometimes” nodded to the ambivalent comedown-synthpop of Modern Life is Rubbish-era Blur – all dirty weekends down Margate, red wine lips and Goldsmiths qualifications – his newest track \u201cDaffodil Days\u201d is its soberer, sarcier older brother. “I call it Gangster Melancholy,” Oscar says, stony-faced. “My older stuff was take on Brit Pop in a way, it was sort of tongue-in-cheek. I guess [the new EP] sounds a bit like that, but I have songs that are like [The Pixies album] Bossanova<\/i> and I\u2019ve got songs that are Dancehall and I\u2019ve got songs that are hip-hop.”<\/p>\n Oscar certainly knows his way around a record store. The Eric B. & Rakim sample buried in early cut “Never Told You” came from crate digging sessions in Soho stalwarts Sister Ray and Reckless. The boy wonder can credit musical knowledge to his parents, who played in new wave band The Regents in the 70s. The songwriter\/producer casually namedrops early muses, German composers Schubert and Schumann, and the classical singing lessons he had as kid won him the North London Singing Festival prize three years in a row.<\/p>\n