Black Vinyl Version of 'Always Fine' 7-inch. Pressed in an edition of 300 copies and housed in a clear velum envelope with matte art.
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Following the release of her celebrated 2017 debut album Won, Lina Tullgren has returned to share brand new track “Always Fine” - a collaboration with musician Jake Rudin.
Not long after having met at a show, Rudin posted a short clip on Instagram of a song he’d started writing with the caption “Who wants to sing on this?” Tullgren immediately responded.
“He sent me “Always Fine" (before it was “Always Fine”) with very few parameters - the structure was laid out, but I was allowed to do whatever I wanted within the structure that existed. So exciting! I had never done something like this before. I came up with the first couple verses and the chorus on my own, before getting together with Jake to, very organically, collaborate to finish the bridge section and the final verse. We then recorded it right away! I’m amazed at how organic and beautiful the whole process was, I feel very fortunate to know Jake and it's special how it all came together.”
It was with the same open, collaborative spirit that Tullgren and Rudin approached Shane Beam to create an animated video to accompany the track. Regarding direction and content, Tullgren simply responded “You go to a party, you are alone, you go to a party and you get there and you don’t feel right and you just have no idea why it feels wrong but something feels off and you can’t access it.” The result is a dazzling visual meditation on this very visceral, frustratingly elusive feeling we all know too well.
Tullgren’s morphing interaction with music has mirrored a growing determination to harness her ability to melodically and lyrically express complex emotions and, though sonically a departure from both her album and 2016 EP Wishlist, “Always Fine” is no exception. “I don't really think about music in the way that me choosing to make songs like this is ‘branching out’. At the end of the day, it's all music. I have a band, and sometimes I make computer music, sometimes i play solo performances, but it all lives under the same umbrella.”
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