Sassy 009
Releases Debut Album Dreamer+
Out Now
via [PIAS] Électronique / HEAVEN-SENT
Album Features Blood Orange, yunè pinku and BEA1991
Sassy 009 shares her highly anticipated debut album, Dreamer+. The album arrives after a huge year for the Norwegian artist, having joined Blood Orange on tour last autumn, detailing debut UK/European tour, A-listed at 6Music, and a cover feature for the NME last month. Through singles “Tell Me,” (ft. Blood Orange), “Butterflies,” “Mirrors” (ft. yunè pinku) and “Enemy,” this rebellious record marks a true departure for Sassy 009, one in which she’s now assertively comfortable in her creative skin with the prowess to explore and seamlessly merge an array of evocative genres. The album has garnered high praise from the likes of NME, Stereogum, Line of Best Fit, FADER and Dazed.
Obscure and thrilling, Sassy 009 explores such complex textures to deliver something hyped with beats and sonic electronica. Sassy 009 provides a unique record that fully embraces such enveloping and arcane soundscapes, all of which exude elements of nostalgia through certain twists yet presented in this futuristic and unapologetic way. A conceptually innovative record.
After finding early acclaim with 2017’s Do You Mind EP, Sassy 009 later evolved into a more rock-influenced project, exploring with live instruments and pop melodies through a string of mixtapes, including KILL SASSY 009 (2019) and Heart Ego (2021). Dreamer+ is Sassy 009’s true debut: a concept-driven album pieced together from nearly four years of studio effort, and an ambitious attempt to take complete control of her artistry. Steered by freshly distorted vocals and elements of grunge, shoegaze, ‘90s beatronica and gauzy hyperpop, the album is a record of self-discovery and self-effacement at once, Dreamer+ is work of fiction at its core, a grim fairytale in which dreams and emotions are processed through a landscape of shapeshifting characters, dark forces and moral responsibilities. It’s an album Lindgård has imagined for years and has taken on many forms, shapes and sizes. Like those morphing silhouettes you see at nighttime, this distinctive body of work has been an ever-evolving assimilation of disciplines. Its final form is a crystalizing constellation of connected works – a bricolage of thought, feeling, and creative desire. Each element offers a familiar entry point into the same underlying themes: identity, memory, and the shifting boundaries of self – where the dreamer is the only witness / only one who remembers.
1. Butterflies
2. Edges
3. In The Snow
4. RIP Time and Thought
5. Dreamer+
6. Sleepwalker’s Pendulum (feat. BEA1991)
7. Someone
8. Mirrors (feat. yunè pinku)
9. Tell Me (feat. Blood Orange)
10. My Candle
11. Enemy
12. Ruins of a Lost Memory
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