Having already stunned us with a string of bright and powerful dream-pop offerings, including ‘No Release’, ‘A Pick’ and the release’s title-track, Swedish artist Rebecka Reinhard now returns to release her long-awaited EP ‘Whale’ on August 21st through Crowds And Power.
As an artist who looks to delve into the more subtle and minimal sounds assigned to the dream-pop genre, ‘Whale’ cements the legacy she has been building over the last few months with a breadth of bold and exciting offerings. Never one to repeat herself, each cut on this six-track collection sees her embrace a new and diverse aesthetic throughout, giving it an adventurous and eclectic texture from start to finish.
Speaking about her new EP, she added, “I wrote these songs when living in London, taking a very good and long time processing a breakup and coming to terms with an emotional resignation; that was it for me, I was done with love. I’ve always had a melancholic and slightly melodramatic streak, which is something that tends to go into full bloom in my music. But I don’t know if it would work if I didn’t also think it was a bit of a pathetic trait. I feel like the songs know that they’re sometimes over the top but that the self-awareness is what saves them, what makes them work. It’s like this musical yin and yang-force between self-absorbed heartbreak and a blasé sense of irony.”
Recorded between London and the Swedish countryside, the release comes after a period of musical and personal discovery. Having left her native Stockholm, Rebecka found herself living in Paris, before relocating to London in 2014. It was there that her musical trajectory solidified, and in the summer of 2018, she started recording with producer Anders Källmark. The single ‘No Release’ is accompanied by a wonderfully lucid and cinematic visual directed by Malin Bernalt.
‘Whale’ EP tracklisting:
- Whale
- No Release
- A Pick
- Quit Your Day Job
- Stamford Hill
- Poison
Rebecka Reinhard’s music has previously been compared to the likes of Mazzy Star, and perhaps even those emanating out of the shoegazing movement that sprung up in the UK and US in the early 1990s. Reinhard hasn’t yet spoken about specific influences, although she listens to everything from hip-hop, punk, new wave, shoegaze, psych-rock, folk pop, jazz and northern soul. She also aligns herself with artists like Snail Mail, Mitski, Angel Olsen and Courtney Barnett and when she reveals that one day she’d love to open for PJ Harvey or Kurt Vile, we know this is just innocent conjecture on her part. Indeed, one listen to her new EP will convince you that she is the kind of artist that is making – and then breaking – her own rules and, ultimately, writing her own history.
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