Matilda Lyn has announced her debut album Red Dragonfly, due 28th August via The Orchard, alongside its title track.
The Swedish songwriter and producer honed her craft at Gothenburg’s Musikmakarna academy before releasing two acclaimed EPs: A Bowl Of Unripe Fruit, which established her instinct for concise, wry observations on coming of age, and Sunwarmed, which pushed further into themes of pleasure, loss and cyclical change. Red Dragonfly is where both threads converge into something more fully realised.
The title track follows recent single ‘Detach’ and sits at the emotional centre of the album: stark, unflinching lyricism layered over a dreamlike surface, tracing the slow erosion of identity within a destructive relationship. “Sometimes a song almost writes itself,” Matilda has said of the track. “Like it’s been in your body and mind for a long time.” A stripped-back visualiser accompanies the release.
The album spans eleven songs and moves, in Matilda’s own words, “between beginnings and endings, intertwined with each other.” It is the first time she describes feeling fully aligned with how she wants her music to sound. “This is me being the truest form of myself in 11 songs,” she has said.
Red Dragonfly is out 28th August.
