Nina Winder-Lind - "Girls"

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Two months ago we brought you a new solo single from Nina Winder-Lind from The New Eves. Since then, we've been waiting to hear more, and we finally have a new song! While her previous single, "This is Our Life," started off as a fairly standard singer-songwriter/alt-folk track and got less mainstream as it went on, "Girls" starts off unique and stays that way all along. It's almost like an avant punk or post-punk song that went folk. At times, the song sounds like a hybrid of The Velvet Underground and The Shaggs, but maybe just a wee bit more accessible than that. Personally, I'm finding "Girls" to be completely irresistible, but I know my taste in music skews towards the left more than a little. If you want to hear something unique and interesting, Nina Winder-Lind is your kind of artist.

Nina Winder-Lind says of her latest album:

“‘Girls’ started as a poem, a kind of subconscious manifesto. It was one of those evenings when you’re home alone and somehow tap into something and it all pours out through you. Listing things that girls want to do was empowering but it also unearthed a deep sadness and heavy memories of loneliness.

“The song has both the triumph and the tremble. The assertiveness and all the questions. But maybe most importantly, the will to break through all walls, stereotypes and learned behaviours, and create something for oneself. In my case it was music, and it is played on the electric guitar. The ultimate catharsis.”

You can watch the video for "Girls" below. Wild Love is due out August 14 on Transgressive Records, and is available for pre-order here. For more on Nina Winder-Lind, check out the artist on Instagram.

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