Swedish singer/songwriter Benjamin Gustafsson will launch his first album for Decca Information US, The Nature Inside, on September 8.
The primary single, out now, is the shifting and contemplative ”Sleeping?”, described as a “complicated emotive composition” that includes Gustafsson’s soft-focus vocals and a musically wealthy backing. The self-composed track, which he produced with Wallentin Richardsson, arrives with a fragile and mesmerizing video.
“‘Sleeping?’ was written in the home within the woods I spent greater than two years in on my own,” says the Malmö-based artist. “I keep in mind I had woken up a number of occasions from very vivid desires. These milliseconds between being so immersed in a dream, to waking up into actuality was actually exhausting to only brush off. I began to suppose and skim loads about desires, and this track sort of embodies that point.”
Gustafsson has spent a lot of his profession up to now writing and recording music with none explicit expectations of what may occur to it. He emerged with Presomnal in 2017, the primary of a sequence of albums for Verve. On the brand new report, the refined contact of those typically instrumental and classically-inclined compositions was knowledgeable by his intense listening to such artists as The Album Leaf, Ef, Ólafur Arnalds, and, maybe extra surprisingly, Coldplay.
The Nature Inside facilities on Gustafsson’s relationship along with his psychological well being, and displays the solace and remedy that he has been capable of take from his music, turning darkish moments into inspiration. It’s an album of hope that chooses to look ahead, and one with a wealthy canvas of textures, environment and splashes of technicolor. Along with his unique compositions, it additionally options a completely acceptable rendition of Nick Drake’s “Which Will,” from his 1972 album Pink Moon.
The complete The Nature Inside album tracklisting is:
1. Dwelling Once more
2. Nature
3. Wake Me Up
4. Course of
5. Moments Circulation Upwards
6. Teddington
7. Which Will
8. Perzina
9. Ready For The Solar
10. Sleeping?
11. Alone Once more