Danish artist Brimheim announces third album, Fables

Fables follows Brimheim's 2024 album RATKING, with "Somebody Else" following previous single "My Collection". The tracks were written during what is described as a breakthrough period for Rebensdorff, during which she started seeking out 1970s singer-songwriters and experimenting with elements of cabaret-style jazz. After bringing these references to the studio, longtime collaborator and songwriting partner Søren Buhl Lassen played a classic jazz progression that Rebensdorff sang along to, opening them up to experimentation.

The new song takes a surreal perspective on the desire to become someone else, and arrives with a music video directed by Stine Emil, completing the two-part visual story that began with "My Collection".

"Through listening to those albums, and crate-digging for artists like Dory Previn, Judee Sill, Scott Walker, and Nick Drake, I got interested in timelessness both as a concept and as something to strive for, aesthetically and sonically," Rebensdorff explains. "It's not the only flavour on the album, but it very much became a compass once I found what tickled me."

"My previous record was deliberately eclectic, drawing from many contrasting references. This time, I wanted cohesion," she adds. "I've tried to accomplish that through working with a loose set of dogmas: Everything played by hand, no pitch correction on vocals, and lyrics needed to have an element of the extraordinary. The result is an organic record that, to me, feels out of time."

Fables follows a period of burnout after a period of heavy touring in support of RATKING. Searching for inspiration, she rented a small cottage on the Faroese island of Nólsoy with Lassen. The album embarks on a search for meaning using the structure of fables, creating characters that endure strange encounters, transformations, choices and consequences, without the promise of a straightforward moral direction.

"It's like when you dream you're falling but never hit the ground," she says. "In dreams, there's no arrival anywhere. You're dropped into a scene, a story, a world, and something's about to happen, a choice is about to be made. But then you wake up and you never get the resolution."

Fables artwork

Fables tracklist

"Deep Sea Creature"
"Somebody Else"
"Girl at the Door"
"Sweet, Sweet Dark"
"Arsenic"
"Ringing Bell"
"Broken Door"
"My Collection"
"iPad Glare"
"Cradle"
"Niagara Falls (Old Gods)"
"Sainte-Chapelle (Paris, Baby)"