Oxis Sets Sail for Oxis 9 With New Single “Knifefish”

Oxis is moving quickly again. Just months after releasing Oxis 8 in January, the Los Angeles-based electronic pop experimentalist has lined up Oxis 9, a follow-up that continues the marine-themed world she has been building across recent releases. A month ago, she opened that run with the singles “Grey Mullet” and “Scup,” and those songs now read less like loose standalones than an early map of the album’s course.

The new record surfaced earlier this week, and the timing of today’s next single, “Knifefish,” makes the rollout feel deliberately compressed. The track starts with immediate momentum, centering Oxis’ voice over a beat that feels both luminous and restless. “Can you hold me tonight?” she asks, the line catching on the edge of its own glitch.

There is no shortage of movement in the track, but what stands out is how directly it places her vocals in the foreground. That intimacy gives the song a sharper profile than a simple preview cut might suggest, and it also helps clarify the album’s mood: less a dramatic reset than a continuation of the same underwater logic, only now expanded into a full-length sequence.

The tracklist for Oxis 9 leans fully into that aquatic naming scheme:

01 “Thypter”
02 “Tilapia”
03 “Carp”
04 “Knifefish”
05 “Chub”
06 “Grey Mullet”
07 “Scup”
08 “Topsmelt”
09 “Perch”
10 “Sturgeon”

Oxis 9 is out 7/17 via Boom Records.