Sassy 009 – Enemy
Today, Sassy 009’s third offering “Enemy” from her debut album Dreamer+ which enlists guest features from Blood Orange, Yuné Pinku and BEA1991.
“Enemy” lands straight after Sassy 009’s European support shows for Blood Orange and their thriving collaborative track “Tell Me,” which saw praise in The Face’s Best New Tracks, Pitchfork Selects, Stereogum, The FADER Songs You Need to Hear and more. Dreamer+ is to be released January 16 via [PIAS] Électronique / HEAVEN-SENT.
“Enemy” distills Sassy 009’s club-meets-grunge production techniques with a maze of breakbeats and crystalized synths taking authority over a maximalist surveillance-level vocal performance. The music video was filmed in Margate by close collaborators & renowned Oslo & Montreal-based directors Maria Hilde and Mikaela Kautzky, who help make up the female/non-binary Norwegian-Canadian snowboarding-meets-creative collective that Sassy 009 is heavily involved in.
Sassy 009 is the shape-shifting project from Oslo-based producer, songwriter and vocalist Sunniva Lindgård. After finding early acclaim as a trio with 2017’s Do You Mind EP, Sassy 009 rebooted as a solo vehicle in 2019, later evolving into 2021’s sultry, bass-driven Heart Ego mixtape.
But for Lindgård, the forthcoming Dreamer+ is her 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.
Dreamer+ is an album Lindgård has imagined for years. It 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 crystalising 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.
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