"I texted you from the bathroom / That I’ll quit tomorrow (I hate it here) / I know it’s only been a couple’ weeks / But we should skip town and go / Would you maybe? / Wanna get away from the normies..."
The illusory sonic landscape of "Normies" by artfully abstract Danish alt-pop indie rock storyteller Brimheim is wonderfully drawn. From the percolating post grunge guitar shapes, the dreamy lush pop noir fog, the free form post rock shuffling drums, all creating a dense alt pop framework for Brimheim's vocal countenance that is truly compelling. I love her voice because the emotional sensibility is farther away from singing but closer to tender bloodletting. Brimheim (I think) provides the backing vox too, like memoric touchstones tempered with pain.
This is not to say that "Normies" is a downer, it is not but it feels thoughtful and emotionally, musically complex. A plunge into the deep side of the pool. The guitar break is wonderfully sideways, an obscurely shaped bit of avant garde piece of work spinning around the bass line and the Official Video has an acerbic wit, both bark and bite.
Important info via LINER NOTES (bracketed):
["I wanted to write about the enraptured early love that turns you into a crazy person," Helena Heinesen Rebensdorff, aka Brimheim, says about her new single "Normies." “I'm fascinated by the way infatuation makes you willing to morph into someone else.”]
[Brimheim’s hasty, silky vocals breathe an anxious urgency into a comfy-pop melody. "On the surface the song seems like a conventional love story but to me there’s a wretchedness about it — I imagine a stalker fallen into dangerous delusion”]
[Traces of this ambiguity can be found in the verses:]
"I'm checking myself out in the rearview / Drivin' up to your house (Dried my tears right off)
I've packed my lipgloss and a tripod / Hope I look good enough"
[The song is a reflection on the romantic entanglements that have previously lead Helena to discard healthy boundaries entirely: “I’ve been so completely love-struck that I’ve jumped on a train to travel cross country in the middle of the night to show up uninvited and unannounced on a near stranger’s doorstep. It’s a completely unhinged thing to do!“]
[“Normies” is the third single from Brimheim’s second album, RATKING, set for release March 22nd via Tambourhinoceros (Lucky Lo, Rangleklods, School of X, Palace Winter). Following the release, Brimheim will embark on a 9 stop European tour as well as a 10 stop Danish leg in the fall including her biggest headliner to date at Store Vega.]
[Opening up about her own deep-seated shame, defenses, and dependencies, RATKING reveals a palatable maturation in Brimheim’s music and lyrics. Helena explains: "I’ve been unpacking many pivotal moments from the utter chaos of my youth in the writing of this record. RATKING has been my way of shining an unflinching spotlight on those chapters of my life and on the parts of me I've previously always fought to obscure”.]
Brimheim is an effervescent trip and I am sure Helena Heinesen Rebensdorff resembles her musical moniker quite a bit, at least, that is the feeling I have at this moment. I know one thing for sure, every sonic creation of hers that I have written about has been pretty fascinating.
-Robb Donker Curtius
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The biggest thing Brimheim has learned is, how shame can’t live in the light. “If I permit myself to express shame, then it makes its power smaller”, she explains. With her unique alt-pop/rock Brimheim transforms her experiences with mental health, stereotypical gender norms, being a public figure, and more into powerful, distinctive, and relatable songs. Always pushing boundaries, Brimheim explores and exposes the most intimate corners and irreconcilable depths of the mind. The vulnerable and heartbreaking alternates with the brutal and megalomaniacal in a supportive array of soundscapes that, like the lyrics, challenge the listener's conventional genre perceptions.
Brimheim, Denmark, singer songwriter, alt pop, abstract, indie rock, "Normies" (Official Video), art pop, art rock, art punk, second album, RATKING,
THE FACTS AS WE KNOW THEM
https://www.instagram.com/brimheim/
https://www.facebook.com/brimheimy
https://tambourhinoceros.net/artists/brimheim
The biggest thing Brimheim has learned is, how shame can’t live in the light. “If I permit myself to express shame, then it makes its power smaller”, she explains. With her unique alt-pop/rock Brimheim transforms her experiences with mental health, stereotypical gender norms, being a public figure, and more into powerful, distinctive, and relatable songs. Always pushing boundaries, Brimheim explores and exposes the most intimate corners and irreconcilable depths of the mind. The vulnerable and heartbreaking alternates with the brutal and megalomaniacal in a supportive array of soundscapes that, like the lyrics, challenge the listener's conventional genre perceptions.
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