Matilda Lyn announces debut album Red Dragonfly out August 28th; shares new title track
“… almost indecent brilliance” – Sunday Times
“Refreshingly imaginative” – NME
“Masochistic, romantic pop” – i-D
“… a knack for world building” – Clash
“Intimate and introspective” – Wonderland
“Sweeping and cinematic” – Pigeons and Planes
Matilda Lyn today announces her debut album Red Dragonfly, set for release August 28th via The Orchard, alongside its striking and deeply affecting title track. A pivotal release, ‘Red Dragonfly’ sees the Swedish songwriter and producer step further into her singular world – one where beauty and decay, tenderness and unease exist side by side.
Following recent single ‘Detach’, which first hinted at the album’s emotional and sonic direction, ‘Red Dragonfly’ feels like a moment of clarity. With stark, unflinching lyricism, Matilda traces the erosion of self within a destructive relationship, capturing the slow unravelling of identity and agency. There’s a visceral sharpness to the song’s language that cuts through its dreamlike surface, grounding it in something painfully real. It’s a portrait of harm that lingers, of a presence that continues to haunt even in absence.
Speaking on the track, Matilda says: “Sometimes a song almost writes itself in a way, like it’s been in your body and mind for a long time. That’s exactly how I wrote this song, the title track of my debut album that’s out August 28th ‘Red Dragonfly’.”
On the upcoming album, she adds: “Red Dragonfly, to me, drifts through transformation and change, reminding me of who I truly am. The record moves between beginnings and endings, intertwined with each other. This is the first time I’ve made music and been totally aligned with how I want it to sound. This is me being the truest form of myself in 11 songs.”
Accompanied by a stripped-back visualiser that mirrors its stark emotional core, ‘Red Dragonfly’ is a defining statement from the Swedish songwriter, producer and artist, signalling the fully realised world Matilda has been quietly building towards – expansive, intimate, and threaded with a sense of fragile transformation.
Born and raised in Gothenburg, Matilda Lyn honed her craft at Sweden’s prestigious Musikmakarna academy, where she developed her distinctive approach to songwriting and production. In creating her own brand of intricate, ethereal pop, her music is wholly introspective and relatable, marked by Matilda’s unique ability to juxtapose her own sugary sweet vocals with more dissonant and surprising instrumental elements. Matilda’s widely acclaimed debut EP A Bowl Of Unripe Fruit cemented her knack for putting concise and wry words to the aches and pains of coming of age, while follow up EP Sunwarmedfound her exploring themes of pleasure, loss and the cyclical nature of life. An assured and accomplished songwriter, musician, vocalist and producer, Matilda is already making a huge mark and continues to carve out a distinct and transportive world of her own, stepping forward as one of pop’s most compelling and quietly subversive voices.
