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Photo by Silken Weinberg The latest solo single from Nina Winder-Lind (The New Eves) diverges from her previous two singles. While "This is Our Life" and "Girls" were singer-songwriter/alt-folk masterpieces, "Headfirst" is more of a straightforward rocker. The song has a killer groove and lets Winder-Lind show off the more gruff aspect of her vocals. There are still traces of alt-folk and a little modern pop, but "Headfirst" is more along the lines of a modern Patti Smith. Winder-Lind is getting to show off her punk-ish side, along with some killer jangly guitar. Just when we started to think we knew what to expect from her upcoming solo album, Nina Winder-Lind throws us off with "Headfirst." Nina Winder-Lind says of her latest single: “‘Headfirst’ is the amalgamation of two elements; a spoken poem that I made whilst out on a walk in my neighbourhood, and an odd two harmony guitar riff that I recorded on GarageBand and labeled ‘televisi...

Photo by Silken Weinberg 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 eveni...