# WATCH:   xx’s Oliver Sim shares new single ‘Hideous’ about living with HIV

- Link: https://indierockcafe.com/2022/05/watchxxs-oliver-sim-shares-new-single-hideous-about-living-with-hiv/
- Published: 2022-05-25T14:53:47-04:00
- Author: Max Hammer

The xx’s **Oliver Sim** has announced his debut solo album, _Hideous Bastard_, 
which will be out September 9 via Young.

 The album includes previous singles “Fruit” and “Romance with a Memory,” and has
just shared a third single, the lush, string-laden “Hideous,” which was produced
by his xx bandmate, **Jamie xx**, and features **Bronski Beat** and Communards cofounder**
Jimmy Somerville**. He’s also shared its striking video, by director **Yann Gonzalez**,
that just premiered at the Cannes Film Festival.

In a statement about the album and single, Sim revealed that he’s been HIV positive
since he was 17. “Two thirds in, having a good idea of what the record was about,
I realized I’d been circling around one of the things that has probably caused me
the most fear and shame: my HIV status,” Sim writes.

“I’ve been living with HIV since I was 17 and it’s played with how I’ve felt towards
myself, and how I’ve assumed others have felt towards me, from that age and into
my adult life.”

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