Matilda Lyn shares new single ‘Good Run’

“… 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 shares ‘Good Run’, the latest single taken from her debut album Red Dragonfly, out August 28th via The Orchard.

It follows forerunning singles 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, and ‘Little Baby’, which turned inward to examine her inner child. ‘Good Run’ finds Matilda arriving somewhere quieter: an act of release, built around the realisation that even good things reach their natural end.

Built around an old organ found in the studio, the track is anchored by a vocal arrangement that swells and loosens in step with the song’s central act of letting go.

Speaking on the track, Matilda shares:

“When something comes to an end it can be hard to really let it go before that good thing turns into something ugly. Good Run is about realizing, we did do our best and had a ‘good run’ but now it’s time to let it go. We have this old organ in the studio that we always wanted to use, so the song was built around that organ and a vocal arrangement that to me really amplifies the feeling of setting something free.”

On the upcoming album, she previously shared:

“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.”

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.

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.