Matilda Lyn releases debut album ‘Red Dragonfly’

“… 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 releases her long-awaited debut album Red Dragonfly today via The Orchard. It lands with focus track ‘Loving Loudly’, accompanied by a stunning visualiser, watch HERE.

Red Dragonfly is a defining statement from the Swedish songwriter, producer and artist – a fully realised world Matilda has been quietly building towards: expansive, intimate, and threaded with a sense of quiet transformation.

On the album, Matilda shares: “Red Dragonfly to me is about transformation and change, reminding me of who I really am. It’s the beginnings and endings intertwined with each other through different landscapes in space and time. 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.”

‘Loving Loudly’ is the latest offering in a confident run of singles that preceded the album release. It included ‘Detach’, which captured the disorienting emotional aftermath of letting go, the album’s title track ‘Red Dragonfly’, which found Matilda tracing the erosion of self within a destructive relationship, ‘Little Baby’, which turned inward to examine her inner child, and ‘Good Run’, an act of release built around the realisation that even good things reach their natural end.

On ‘Loving Loudly’, Matilda shares: “Loving loudly is an ode to someone you meet for the first time who almost takes your breath away. You don’t really know them, but you’re in awe of the way they carry themselves, how they’re brave enough to love loudly and feel everything deeply. And for a moment, you wish you could be capable of that too.”

Born and raised in Gothenburg, Matilda Lyn has a 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.

This month Matilda made her debut festival appearance at Way Out West Festival in Gothenburg, Sweden. To celebrate the album’s release she will be hosting a release party on August 28th at Snövit in Stockholm, RSVP HERE.