“Wake up”, the new single from Belgian artist Oliver Symons, is out today, Friday, 2 October 2026, via Maison Arts. It’s an easy first listen for anyone who likes catching an artist early, and Symons’s Spotify and YouTube pages are there to follow. One spin is enough for the chorus line, “We will never be this young”, to follow you to work tomorrow morning.
The name may be new outside Belgium, but his production has been heard in arenas there for years. Here’s the short version of how he got here, plus where to start listening.
Bazart’s Producer Takes the Mic
Oliver Symons is an Antwerp-based artist, producer and songwriter. He first made his name as the main producer and a member of Bazart, an Antwerp band that plays major arenas and festivals across Belgium and the Netherlands. Bazart’s electronic-leaning debut album, Echo, went to No. 1 on the Flemish Ultratop 200, the chart for Belgium’s Dutch-speaking north.
His solo project reverses that role. It’s more electronic and producer-led than the band, and his own songwriting and vocals sit at the front of it. His biography lists collaborators across his solo work that would make most new acts jealous: Alessandro Buccellati (Lily Allen, SZA), Gianluca Buccellati (Lana Del Rey, Arlo Parks), and Nathan Boddy (James Blake, Olivia Dean, and PinkPantheress).
Room 74 to Ancienne Belgique
The solo chapter opened in early 2025 with his debut EP, Room 74. He followed it with three singles, Room 74, Remedy and Time, and by October 2025 he had sold out his first solo headline show at Ancienne Belgique in Brussels. That’s a headline crowd inside a year of releasing music under his own name, which is a fast start for a debut solo act.
He followed up in 2026 with the single What Is Happening?. “Wake up” now adds something warmer and more openly nostalgic to a catalogue that leaned moodier and more electronic.
Inside the Song
The lyrics read like a diary page written the morning after the best night of the summer. It opens on “And I wake up lying next to you / Dreamers, wandering, chasing the best of youth”, setting the scene before the beat has fully settled in. The song never pretends to be cooler than it is, and that sincerity is the hook.
The sharpest line hides in the second verse: “Back then the west was one and we were two.” That bit of wordplay rewards a second listen. It sits right before the song’s most reckless promise, “At that party I will marry you”, which anyone who has made a grand vow at 2am will recognise with a wince.
Then the chorus puts the stakes on the table: “Honey I would risk it all / We will never be this young.” There’s no irony here and no hedging. It works because the whole song is about refusing to play it safe while the clock runs down.
A tighter radio edit goes out to stations from today, and the official lyric video is the quickest way to hear the song and follow the words at once:
Built for the Late Bus Home
Plenty of songs look back on youth from a safe distance. “Wake up” is sung from inside the moment by someone who can feel it slipping away. That hits hard for anyone between 18 and 35, when friends leave for jobs overseas, work eats the weekends, and every good stretch of holidays feels like it could be the last one with the same group.
It helps that the person singing has spent years engineering arena-sized moments for a chart-topping band. He’s now aiming those instincts at something far more personal. The result suits headphones on a late bus home as well as a festival field, and few singles manage both. Catch him now, before the algorithm hands him to everyone else!
Where to Start Listening
Start with “Wake up”, obviously, and then skip straight to What Is Happening?. That’s the clearest picture of where his sound is heading. After that, go back to the Room 74 EP for the moodier, more electronic material that built his first crowd, and save Remedy and Time for a slow Sunday when you want the full arc.
Symons has Spotify and YouTube profiles to follow. Symons posts on Instagram as oliversymons_ and on Facebook as oliversymonsmusic, which is the best place to catch new music and show news first.
Press play on “Wake up” today, let that chorus get under your skin, and then head to Oliver Symons’ official website to explore his releases and keep up with what he does next. The best part of finding an artist at this stage is being able to say you were there first!
Photos and Visuals courtesy of Oliver Symons and Maison Arts, with photography by William Van Bavel, Willem Volker, and Bob Jeusette.
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