Badlands’ Carnal New LP ‘Call to Love’ Out Friday | Shares Focus Track “I Want Blood” Today

Badlands’ Carnal New Album Call to Love

“A tribute to love in all its wonderful, brutal, mean, horny and embarrassing forms”

Out Friday (11/18) via RITE

Shares Focus Track “I Want Blood”
Via Under the Radar

“‘Call to Love’ brings to mind the best elements of
Bristol legends Portishead and Massive Attack.” – FLOOD Magazine“’Djinn’ is a stunning, delicately composed collection,
paying homage to Badlands’ electro, post-punk and new wave influences,
and in the end, something fresh, new and all her own.” – SPIN Magazine

“The soundtrack to a very danceable apocalypse” – VICE

“It’s impossible not to repeat ‘Echo’ over and over (and over) again” – BBC 6 Music

“[‘I Want Blood’] The track’s effortless blend 
of instrumentation and tones, paired with an expansive song structure, make it one of
Jaunviksna’s most ambitious offerings yet.” – Under the Radar

“.. a dark and distinct sound told through warm reassuring melodies.” – KEXP

“…gently glowing 80’s inspired pop –
think of it as new wave in pastel rather than neon” – Bandcamp Daily

‘Call to Love’ Album Art, Credit: Brigita Ektermane 

“I Want Blood” Single Art 
Credit: Brigita Ektermane

Where last year’s acclaimed album Djinn, a memorial to her late mother, featured sparkling, arpeggiated soundscapes, this new song cycle demonstrates Jaunviksna’s continued artistic evolution as she unveils a fully self-crafted organic and vinyl-dusted sound, best described as ‘outlaw electronica.’ “The soundscape has been crucial in getting my message across; what’s beautiful and vulnerable emerges through imperfection and letting yourself lose control,” she explains. This ability to meld electronic and orchestral instrumentation, vinyl samples, field recordings and other “analog dirt” into arrangements that are intricate, while seemingly effortless, is foundational to an album that is the result of stored emotions, both internal and external, channeled into a series of love letters to people and situations that were left unresolved.The DIY approach is crucial to the distinct Badlands sound, where Jaunviksna exclusively writes, records, produces and mixes all material. She is the founder of the electronic record label, arts platform and production company RITE, based in Tambourine Studios (cradle of The Cardigans, Peter Bjorn & John) in Malmö, Sweden, from where she also makes original music and sound designs for film and theater, transboundary arts and documentary, as well as production and mix work for other labels and artists. Jaunviksna started to explore analog MIDI and sampling as a teenager, finding a musical sanctuary in her own electronic compositions. Merging from music to sound design, she attended the sound design programme at the reputable National Film School of Denmark 2009-2011, but became the schools first dropout due to her constant longing to make music. She then formed Badlands as a home for her new electroacoustical fusions with vocals and released first Badlands EP Battles Within (2012), followed by album Locus (2016).

Call to Love Tracklist:
1. My Time Will Come Again
2. See You Get Hurt
3. Doubts
4. Bury You Whole
5. Don’t Walk
6. She’s Acting Just Like A Child
7. Clown
8. I Want Blood

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