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Vaarin makes a dramatic return with new single ‘Dark Matter’

Vårin Strand, under the stage name Vaarin, is ready to release her second album in May. The first single is ‘Dark Matter’, out today.

With references like Kate Bush, Björk and Adrianne Lenker, 26-year-old Vaarin has made an album – a whole world, in fact – about finding the way through our “dark matters”, our meaninglessness and identity of belonging.

The introduction to this world is the single ‘Dark Matter’; to make a dialog with the darkest thoughts inside you may be the only solution to understanding them. If you push them away, or try to unfriend them, they will grow and fight back. Vaarin doesn’t just fight back, she stands right in front of her inner dark mistress, ready to confront.

‘Dark Matter’ – written and produced by Vaarin with Marcus A. Edvardsen (Anna Soleil, Zueva) and Bjarne Stensli (Astrid S, A-ha) – is a song of cloudy cellos, layers of guitar and murky synths. Vaarin’s warm and close vocal is up front, though, the guide through the clashing feelings of being trapped and freeing oneself from life’s various locks.

“A dark material inside of me keeps on pushing up front…someday I’ll get covered by it and the feeling of it staying alive forever, is quite scary,” says Vaarin. “Our bodies seem to never forget trauma. This is a conversation with the black soil streaming through inside of me. And my frustration and journey along the way, wanting and trying to get rid of it. What are your darkest matters and how do you deal with yours?”

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