As Badlands, Catharina Jaunviksna parlays her appreciable DIY abilities beneath an virtually cinematic shroud of thriller. So that you’d count on nothing lower than an enticingly open-ended evaluation of her newest single, “No one Dies.”
“It was born from a fleeting encounter and the load of a second shared between two individuals on the sting,” says the Swedish composer, producer, documentarist and soundscape auteur. “Their story lingered with me … fragments of their phrases, a sure silence between them. And I attempted to seize that feeling.”
“No one Dies” is the title observe to Badlands’ fourth studio album, accessible October 10 on Jaunviksna’s RITE label. Assuming the position of post-apocalyptic fabulist, she interweaves a roughhewn patchwork of folky intimacy and ambient balladry with digital, natural and (on some events) discarded devices. She additionally referred to as on a number of pals, together with pedal-steel participant Maggie Björklund (Jack White, Mark Lanegan), folklorist/cellist Ida Mitchell and collage artist Oskar Persson (OSKARP).
“The video is predicated on each the story behind the music and an artwork collaboration with Oskar,” says Jaunviksna. “He additionally made the album’s authentic art work, together with the limited-edition vinyl gatefold sleeve.”
We’re proud to premiere Badlands’ “No one Dies.”
—Hobart Rowland
