Last month we shared ‘My Collection‘, a new single from Brimheim which represented something of a paradigm shift for the Copenhagen-born, Malmö-based songwriter. “Where her previous album RATKING sought clarity within the fraught, confusing experience of personal identity,” we wrote, “‘My Collection’ moves in a more ambiguous direction, swapping out the brightness and rhythm in favour of something more fictional and oblique. The story of a perhaps eccentric woman who collects objects discarded by others, valuing the hidden beauty within that which has been rejected, and guarding her prized possessions with an almost maternal instinct.”
Brimheim has now anounced brand new full-length Fables, set for release in February 2027 via Tambourhinoceros, and second single ‘Somebody Else’ was just as central to this new era of the project. Written in the same epiphanic week as ‘My Collection’, the track further establishes the vision of the record, one with a real sense of certainty in regards both style and theme. “My previous record was deliberately eclectic, drawing from many contrasting references,” Brimheim explains. “This time, I wanted cohesion. I’ve tried to accomplish that through working with a loose set of dogmas: Everything played by hand, no pitch correction on vocals, and lyrics needed to have an element of the extraordinary. The result is an organic record that, to me, feels out of time.”
Taking inspiration from seventies songwriters and cabaret jazz, the result is playful, sensual and in possession of a suggestively dark underside. A surreal exploration of identity and our desires to escape it told with the singular style of an artist finding their true voice. “Fables is a search for what is human and for what still holds meaning — within myself and in our dystopian times,” Brimheim continues. “I make art and music to make sense of a foundational feeling of alienation. With this record I was especially interested in recapturing the lost magic and imagination I had access to as a child.”
Watch the video below, directed by Stine Emil, produced by Monster Crotch with director of photography Rie Windfeld Skou:
Fables will be released on the 5th February via Tambourhinoceros and you can pre-order it from the Brimheim Bandcamp page.
Photo by Jasko Bobar