Many Voices Speak, the project of Swedish musician Matilda Mård, has announced that she will release her sophomore album Gestures on April 29th via Strangers Candy.
She’s let go of the stunning first single, “Seat for Sadness” a track with an enchanting power that throws you into a warm blanket of subversive dreamy folk that lends a hand into ethereal waters that will break your heart and then some. As far as we can tell, it’s one of the best songs of 2022 so far.
Find a bit of insight about the creation of the song directly from Mård below.
The verse of this song kind of came to me all at once. Then it took quite a long time until I got the rest of the song out of me. I lived in Berlin at the time and rented a piano room at a music school, and most of the hours spent in there I was searching for the rest of the song. It wasn’t until me and Petter Nygårdh had started recording the album back home in Sweden, that I came up with the melody that would become the chorus. The new chorus pushed us in a new direction by making the whole song require something more. We had only brought a small part of the home studio to a country house to escape the noise from the neighbour’s renovation, but we found an acoustic guitar in that house that ended up being an important part of Seat For Sadness, and later on an important part of the album as a whole.”
Enjoy a listen to “Seat for Sadness” now below.
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