It’s the first new music since the release of their critically acclaimed debut album Bird Hour in May 2023. ‘Normal Song’ is a natural continuation thematically from Bird Hour, with the new single finding the duo not only embracing their melancholy, but celebrating it.

“I see the song being about trying to please everyone but failing, having a lot of things t hat need to get done, but all you want to do is close yourself off and cry in the corner” explains singer Inez. “But then you think about it and say no, actually, I shouldn’t have to suppress this despair I’m feeling – I wanna cry in an open field. It’s normal to feel these things and you don’t have to hide it, if you don’t want to.”

“When we originally had the idea for the song, it was sort of a lighthearted joke actually” continues Ella. “But it quite quickly resonated with us, and we realized that this could maybe turn into a proper song. We recorded it with Jens Lindgård at Gula Studion here in Malmö, and I think his production matches the story and juxtaposition of the song perfectly. On first listen it maybe sounds like a lighthearted festival banger, especially with the big pumping chorus, but then you realise it’s actually quite sad.”

Built around their telepathic harmonies, close – up guitar and droning mellotron washes, it’s a spartan indie sound. The style is equally inflected by dark folk elements, austere post – punk and woozy slacker, with earworms choruses.

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Talking on ‘I Like To Pretend’, Inez details the song’s origins – and the part it played in the origins of the band itself: “This song came about when I was jokingly singing and making up stories with my then boyfriend. The melody stuck in my head and it somehow turned into this song! This ended up being one of the first songs we made together as 7ebra, and one of the first we recorded with Tore. It was also actually the first taste of our music anybody had heard from us for the first few months, as we put an early mix up on YouTube when we first started.”

Refined since this initial peek out into the world, the track is a formative indication of the careful balance the sisters strike between personal stories, and off-kilter whimsy.

Bird Hour:

1. Secretly Bad
2. I Like to Pretend
3. Rude Body
4. If I Ask Her
5. Stripey Horsey
6. Lean
7. I Have a Lot to Say
8. Born to Care
9. Done With the Day
10. Lighter Better
11. Wakey Wakey

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