Premiere: Stream and Download London O'Connor's Debut Album, 'O∆'

Born and raised in San Marcos, CA, London O'Connor knows first hand about suburban boredom. Hazy summers and quiet nights all shaped his childhood, and that boredom, per say, helped him become more tune with so much of today's youth—video games, neighborhood hangs, growing up on the internet. These days, the 24-year-old artist, who moved to New York to study at NYU's Clive Davis Institute of Recorded Music​ after graduating from high school in 2009, is spending his time skating, accumulating one of the best wardrobes in music, and making some incredible music.

Today, he debuts his new album, O∆—pronounced Circle Triangle—a symbol for exploration. "I feel great when people understand its theirs," he explained to a fan on his Tumblr recently. "Someone is going to use it in space one day.  Someone is gonna get a tattoo of it when they accept themselves enough to finally transition their body to their gender.  Someone is going to have it in their lab while they cure diseases."

There's truth to his explanation. O∆ is a melting pot of sounds, entirely produced, written and performed by O'Connor. It's not a rap album, it's not a pop album—it's a truly all-encompassing project filled with crooning, rhymes, and a variety of different sounds that, all at once, capture teenage angst, growing up, and romance. There's obvious standouts—"Oatmeal," his debut single for which he created an entire video game around, "Nobody Hangs Out Anymore," a song about disconnection from the world and friends. But it's on tracks like "Natural," where his overwhelming, lush production paired with conversational rhymes hit you dead in your heart, because there's not one song on the project people won't relate to. 

His rhymes are vulnerable, and insecurites and honesty run rampant throughout the project. You can download O∆ in full here and stream it below, plus get to know him in this Pigeons & Planes feature, too.