Rebecka Reinhard’s music has previously been compared to the likes of Mazzy Star, and perhaps even those emanating out of the shoegazing movement that sprung up in the UK and US in the early 1990s.
While she hasn’t yet spoken about specific influences, although she listens to everything from hip-hop, punk, new wave, shoegaze, psych-rock, folk pop, jazz and northern soul, she also aligns herself with artists like Snail Mail, Mitski, Angel Olsen and Courtney Barnett and when she reveals that one day she’d love to open for PJ Harvey or Kurt Vile, we know this is just innocent conjecture on her part.
Her new EP ‘Whale’ was recorded between London and the Swedish countryside. The record comes after a period of musical and personal discovery for her after having left her native Stockholm, Rebecka found herself living in Paris, before relocating to London in 2014. It was there that her musical trajectory solidified, and in the summer of 2018, she started recording with producer Anders Källmark.
Indeed, one listen to her music will convince you that she is the kind of artist that is making and then breaking her own rules and, ultimately, writing her own history.
