Becky and the Birds AKA: Swedish songwriter/producer Thea Gustafsson, returns with new single and video “When She Holds Me”. The new track is the first taste of Becky and the Birds debut 4AD album, due to arrive later this year.

Finding inspiration in the early work of Bon Iver, the For Emma intimacy blossoms into harmonies and atmospheric soundscapes; the rich instrumentation
references previous collaborators Dijon and Lapsley via soft-spoken harmonies and plucked strings. As Gustafsson described of the track: “I wrote this song to the first girl I fell in love with. Everything about her reminded me of summer, and this song is her anthem. And an anthem and ode to all women and their ethereal beauty and love.”

The single is accompanied by a video created by Tiffi Malmgren, Simone Beyene (Nothing Yet) and Morris Malmgren (Push Visuals). The visual reflects the soft, layered complexities of Becky and the Birds’ sound and the warmth with which Gustafsson opens her heart to a relationship in the song.

Thea Gustafsson, writes, records, and produces under the moniker Becky and the Birds — is a disciplined person by nature, with her formal musical education
at Musikmakarna Songwriters Academy of Sweden and avid violin-playing as a child inspiring her unending need for perfectionism. Armed with the skills of pop songcraft
and production, Becky and the Birds came to life in 2016 in reaction to frustrating and fruitless encounters with male producers and songwriters, which took form in
2018’s self-released EP Becky and the Birds.

With the release of her debut 4AD EP, Trasslig, in 2020, Gustafsson used Becky and the Birds as an outlet for songs about complex women – strong, independent, sensitive and romantic women that are both powerful and vulnerable at the same time and who are ‘trasslig’ (Swedish for ‘entangled, messy, intricate’).

order “When She Holds Me” by Becky and the Birds HERE