Matilda Lyn shares new single ‘Little Baby’
“… 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 ‘Little Baby’, 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, and the album’s title track ‘Red Dragonfly’, which found Matilda tracing the erosion of self within a destructive relationship. This latest taste of Matilda’s new era finds her turning inward in an entirely different way. Built around drum samples and wrapped in a burst of kinetic, playful production, the track examines the small, uncertain parts of ourselves that surface in moments of vulnerability: the inner child that creeps in when insecurity takes hold.
Speaking on the track, Matilda shares:
“Little Baby started with me playing around with some drum samples while building a playful world around the feeling of the song. It’s about the little kid in you that sometimes shows up in your insecure moments. The contrast of having sad lyrics in an upbeat song is something that has always intrigued me and that’s what this song is to me.”
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.
