Cinematic is the sixth studio album by electronica project Owl City. It was released on June 1, 2018. Following the 2015 Owl City album Mobile Orchestra, Adam Young announced that he would suspend work on Owl City to undertake a project of instrumental scores; he released one score, or album, each month in 2016 excepting January. Also in 2016, he released a Christmas single named "Humbug," which was the first Owl City work to be released independently since 2009 (Ocean Eyes, and subsequent albums and singles, were released on Universal Republic). Young hinted after the conclusion of the Scores project that work on Owl City had resumed and a new album was in progress; this was revealed, on October 30, 2017, to be Cinematic. Young distinguished Cinematic from existing Owl City releases by stating that its content would center around events from his life rather than ethereal concepts (he clarified after the album's release that all prior Owl City work "was pure imagination," and Cinematic was "the first album hold songs written from a personal perspective"). Album artwork and release date were revealed concurrently with the name, followed shortly by a track listing. The album has 18 tracks in total, with 15 main songs and 3 alternate recordings. Music videos were recorded for each of the three lead singles and released concurrently. Each video features the same characters and is loosely connected to the others; a "director's cut" of all three was released shortly after the st