Brimheim
Brimheim
Brimheim shares new single “Somebody Else” along with news of third album Fables due for release on 5th Feb via Tambourhinoceros.
Photography Credit: Jasko Bobar
“Somebody Else” was written during the same breakthrough week as previous single “My Collection.” After months of struggling to find a way forward, Brimheim began exploring 1970s singer-songwriters and cabaret jazz, with long-time collaborator Søren Buhl Lassen introducing a classic 2-5-1 piano progression in the studio with the song coming together quickly, highlighting a more playful approach that had been missing from the writing.
That lightness is offset by the song’s darker premise, centred on the desire to become somebody else. Alongside “My Collection,” it marked a turning point in the writing process, helping to open up the ideas and sound that would become Fables.
Commenting on Fables, Brimheim explains “My previous record was deliberately eclectic, drawing from many contrasting references. This time, I wanted cohesion. I’ve tried to accomplish that through working with a loose set of dogmas: Everything played by hand, no pitch correction on vocals, and lyrics needed to have an element of the extraordinary. The result is an organic record that, to me, feels out of time.
Fables is a search for what is human and for what still holds meaning — within myself and in our dystopian times. I make art and music to make sense of a foundational feeling of alienation. With this record I was especially interested in recapturing the lost magic and imagination I had access to as a child.”
That search for meaning eventually gave the album its name. Brimheim takes the familiar machinery of the fable – strange encounters, transformations, choices and consequences, but scraps their promise of a tidy moral. Her characters hover at thresholds, caught somewhere between who they are and who they might become. Mirrors, doorways, bells, darkness and discarded things take on lives of their own. Again and again, resolution slips out of reach. Where the fables of childhood tell us what the story means, Fables is more interested in what happens when no answer arrives.
“Somebody Else” is accompanied by a music video directed by Stine Emil, completing the two-part visual story that began with “My Collection.”
The 12-track Fables will be released on vinyl, CD and digitally on February 5, 2027 via Tambourhinoceros. Pre-order Fables here.
