Swedish experimental pop musician and producer Thea Gustafsson (aka Becky and the Birds) shared her self-produced debut album, Only music makes me cry now, in November 2024. After recently being named Producer of the Year at the 2025 Swedish Grammis, she now returns a new track entitled ‘Should’ve known better (choices)’ — a thematic companion to the Only music makes me cry now track ‘I look at the choices i made’, the new single highlights Gustafsson’s unique, current, and...
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Thea Gustafsson – who writes, records, and produces under the moniker Becky and the Birds – turns a new leaf, entering an era of creative freedom and emotional release with her self-produced debut album Only Music Makes Me Cry Now, out today. Her new single ‘To trust you’ contributes an air of vulnerability to the LP’s emotively hard-hitting and sonically diverse soundscape through hypnotic looped vocals, stomping 808s, and transportive electric...
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Becky and the Birds has recently turned a new leaf, entering an era of creative freedom and emotional release with her forthcoming self-produced debut album Only Music Makes Me Cry Now, due for release on 15 November. Today, she shares the record’s newest single ‘Anymore’, a beautifully transportive sound bath of sleek hazy hooks and hypnotic drum tracks, levied by her echoed, bird-like vocals delivering a cathartic message on starting...
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Becky and the Birds has recently turned a new leaf, entering an era of creative freedom and emotional release with the announcement of her forthcoming self-produced debut album Only Music Makes Me Cry Now, due for release on 15 November. She also shares new single ‘I made my baby cry’, a gorgeous post-breakup lament that swells with emotional catharsis alongside an accompanying visualiser, made by Gustafsson. Watch below! Meshing delicate...
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Becky and the Birds, the moniker of Swedish producer Thea Gustafsson, has released her new EP Trasslig via 4AD. Gustafsson uses Becky And The Birds as an outlet for songs about complex women – strong, independent, sensitive and romantic women – and Trasslig (Swedish for “entangled, messy, intricate”) echoes that sentiment. She says, “people are scared of women who could be both powerful and vulnerable at the same time, and...
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Headphones on. Becky and the Birds, the moniker of Swedish producer Thea Gustafsson, has released her new single ‘Paris.’ ‘Paris’ is accompanied by visuals created by Thea Gustafsson. She explains, “I wrote this song in a hotel room in the centre of Paris. I was there to have a good time and to free my thoughts for a minute but couldn’t stop thinking about one special person back home. This...
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Meet Muzz, a new indie supergroup comprising Paul Banks of Interpol, Josh Kaufman of Bonny Light Horseman, and Matt Barrick of The Walkmen. First single ‘Broken Tambourine’ begins with sparse, floating piano by Kaufman, before surging with Banks’ rumbling vocals, Barrick’s low percussion, and a lilting clarinet, while an open door during recording brings in the surrounding nature sounds of the studio in Woodstock and augments the song’s spacious atmosphere....
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Introducing Becky and the Birds, the monikier of Thea Gustafsson. She joins the 4AD family and releases her new single ‘Do U Miss Me‘ off the pop producer and songwriter’s forthcoming debut EP for the label. Stream it here. The b4 family ever grows. Syv De Blare is a newcomer on the avant-garde pop scene. Hypnotic, sensual and futuristic. She releases ‘WAKE‘ her first since signing to b4, which...
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