Ensuring a handful of poignant singles last year, Bonander entered 2021 with the immense and spellbinding paroxysm, ‘Gone In The Wind’ released on 12th February.
Bonander is the shorthand for Ellinor Sterner Bonander. Sporting the role of musician, arranger and producer, the native Swede is a woman unchained, injecting darkness into the vein of candied pop with her tropes of existentialism and feminist revolt.
Following the arc of ‘Backseat’ and ‘Martha’, Bonander’s latest single, ‘Gone In The Wind’ leads the way for the album with its emotional outpour of lost sisterhood. Tribal thrashes of drums, pipe organ and soaring vocals combine to manifest the pain and frustration at the heart of the song.
She says, “The song is about abandonment of a person who's been like a sister to you, someone you admire and cherish… The pipe organ and strings are the most emotional instrumentation I can think of. They represent that suppressed feeling of anger and frustration, that later in the song is set free.”
In collaboration with the Swedish alternative indie label Icons Creating Evil Art, Bonander is now launching her first ever full-length album ‘Things We Don’t Talk About’. The new album tells the stories of women both from history and her personal life whose contributions have previously been overlooked.
“The idea for the album is to create a musical, cinematic and dramatic journey full of contrast between intimate string sections and huge synth landscapes, between mechanical rhythms and flowing tempos. The lyrics will together speak of the identities and emotional life of different women, both through private and historical perspectives. All of the songs discuss subjects concerning women that ought to be talked about more, but sadly are not..." // Bonander
TRACKLIST:
A1. Never Ask
A2. Gone In The Wind
A3. Martha
A4. Statue
A5. Ms Mitchell
A6. Backseat
B1. Slumber Love
B2. Annie
B3. Then I’m Dead
B4. Mother
B5. Silent Lights
B6. Ode
UK PR Partner: James Barker, Mystic Sons, www.mysticsons.com
Nordic PR Partner: Sebastian Smedberg, Love Street Music, www.lovestreetmusic.no
GSA PR Partner: Marco Linke, CMM, www.cmm-online.de
IT PR Partner: Barbara Francone, NeeCee Agency, www.neeceeagency.com
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