Relax and rewind to this wonderful album
Swedish-Australian indie pop outfit Tiny Fighter has released their new album ‘Rewind’, produced by multi-Grammy award winning producer Thomas “Plec” Johansson (Opeth, Soilwork, Degrade) and recorded at The Panic Room Studio in Skövde and Stockholm, Sweden.
For ‘Rewind’, the band used many new instruments, including mandolins, dobro, trumpets, flugelhorns, pedal steel and drum machines. In perhaps what is their most Scandinavian moment to date, Tiny Fighter recorded vocals in the studio sauna on account of the excellent sound-proofing and bonus warmth.
Earlier, the band presented the lead single ‘Rewind’ with its relaxed sun-brazing video, created by filmmaker Christian Rutegård, together with frontwoman Therese Karlsson.
Formed in 2017, Tiny Fighter grew from a collaboration between Therese Karlsson (a truck driver from Kalmar in the deep south of Sweden) and Tim Spelman (a doctor from the deep south of Australia), into a full band. They have released a string of singles and EPs, a live album, a remix collection and the full-length debut album ‘Going Home’.
After racking up 1 million views on YouTube, over 700,000 Spotify streams and successful tours through the US, Canada and Europe, Sweden’s Tiny Fighter were poised for a small but significant slice of world domination. Then came COVID, effectively putting the brakes on the whole machine. Faced with an extended period of no touring, a fan campaign led by a collection of locked-down Tiny Fighter supporters began to follow up the band’s celebrated ‘Loft Sessions (Live in New York)’ album. The problem – there was no live music, much less any touring. The solution – record a completely new record combining brand new songs with re-interpretations of some of their fan-favourites. Thus, the ‘Rewind’ album was born.
“Our new album is a more acoustic take on our songs that already exist, with the exception of one cover and a Swedish version of one of our songs. It has been fun looking into our own rearview mirror and now bringing some of our songs to light once more with an acoustic touch. So for this album, we are Rewinding time and, at the same time, we look forward to seeing what lies ahead of us,” says Therese Karlsson.
Tim Spelman comments, “This record represents somewhat of a departure from our previous pop-rock based releases, with a heavier reliance on acoustic instruments and bringing in new layers including brass, mandolins, pedal steel and drum machines. The pop is still there, but it’s more intimate and stripped back – that’s why we recorded the vocals in our sauna”.
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