On March 31, Detalji, a performing artist and dance music producer based in Helsinki, Finland, is set to release her debut album, Truly, a simultaneously nostalgic yet forward thinking love letter to club culture, joy and queer love. She has also shared ‘Caribbean’, the first single to be taken from the album.
Written during the lockdown years of 2020 and 2021, Truly is a slice of pure escapism. Drawing inspiration from the soundtracks of video games she was playing during that time (namely Crash Bandicoot, GTA Vice City and GTA3) carefully weaving a comforting world of her own, creating distinctive sounding pieces of music that are difficult to place in a certain moment in time. Picking up the guitar after years of neglect also served this purpose, surprising her longtime fans with a completely new addition to her sound.
Of her new single, Detalji says: “I came up with the lyrics to ‘Caribbean’ when I was thinking of my two friends who were in a relationship many years back, and how it took one of them almost a decade to get over it and accept someone new as her partner. The first draft of the track had way more guitars and kinda folky vibes. I liked it, but it didn’t sound like me, so I went more into the early 2000’s trance/dance direction with the production. While I was mixing the track, I was thinking of the beach in the movie ‘The Beach’ and an emerald blue ocean and I imagined a person standing there, listening to the sound of waves crashing into the shore and thinking of a person from their past.”
Truly takes its cues from the pioneering leftfield pop artists of the 80s and 90s. A tasteful dose of nostalgic dance and trance is melded together with a forward-thinking contemporary sound palette in a way that feels completely timeless and totally unique to Detalji.
Truly:
- Start
- Space Love
- Keep Me Alive
- Übermacht Revolver
- Poppers
- Speed
- 6 AM
- Caribbean
- Ghosts
- Truly
- Some Other Town
