Amanda Bergman announces new album
AMANDA BERGMAN ANNOUNCES NEW ALBUM EMBRACED FOR A SECOND AS WE DIE, OUT 16 JANUARY VIA THE SATCHI SIX & ARKETYP
SHARES LEAD SINGLES ‘MEXICO’ AND ‘IS THIS HOW YOU SAID YOU’D BE GONE’
ANNOUNCES EUROPEAN TOUR INCLUDING SHOW AT LONDON’S THE LEXINGTON ON 10 MARCH
“The work of a voice obeying no instructions but her own”
Clash
Listen to ‘mexico’ here:
https://youtu.be/OnZUqqQxYEM
Listen to ‘is this how you said you’d be gone’ here:
https://youtu.be/UJZFi4URGvA
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Amanda Bergman has today announced that she will release her third album embraced for a second as we die on 16 January via The Satchi Six & Arketyp. Following her return with the video for ‘grasp’ earlier this month, she has today also shared lead singles ‘mexico’ and ‘is this how you said you’d be gone’ and announced a European tour which includes a show at London’s The Lexington on 10 March, full dates and tickets can be found below.
Speaking of ‘mexico’ Amanda says:
“‘mexico’ captures the essence of a lot of the music I’ve loved and listened to over the years.
It’s about the internal push and pull between self-erasure and adaptive surrender — a tension I believe many of us experience in intimate relationships, whether healthy or damaging.”
Speaking of ‘is this how you said you’d be gone’ Amanda says”:
“‘is this how you said you’d be gone’ is a song about the stunned stillness after sudden loss, how loss and grief sometimes rearranges your life, and its very infrastructure.
Some relationships – even when someone has died or drifted away – can feel just as vivid,
sometimes even more so, than those still present. For me, the inner conversations I have with my dad and grandma, for example, can feel as real as birdsong, even though they are long since gone. I’ve stopped questioning it and instead learned to use it – not unlike how I’d honour my children’s fantasies, not for their content but for their truth. Sometimes the body and the mind agree on a kind of truth that logic can’t touch.”
embraced for a second as we die follows up 2024’s Your Hand Forever Checking On My Fever for which Amanda won two Swedish GRAMMY awards, ‘Lyricist of the Year’ and ‘Singer/Songwriter of the Year’.
Amanda describes embraced… in short as a display of “love as resistance. Across relationships – romantic, familial, ancestral – love is portrayed as/assumed to be the only force that still feels real amid chaos”. The title alludes to the theory (“whether it’s true or not doesn’t matter”) that the brain releases a flood of DMT in our final moments. She says, “embraced for a second as we die isn’t about death so much as it’s about that imagined moment of clarity – the second when everything, for once, makes sense. For me, that’s the image. In my own search for answers, there’s also a kind of realisation – or maybe comfort – in knowing that, okay, whether I choose to become a pirate or a Buddhist, there’s still a pretty good chance it’ll all end the same way anyway”.
The album was written by Amanda and the music arranged by her and her partner Petter Winnberg with the intent in mind of the live recording reaching its full potential and making up most of the final product. This was then recorded in two sessions at Atlantis Metronome – the old ABBA studio in Stockholm.
On her new album, Amanda Bergman tries to grasp the present moment as it unfolds. The personal and the political, the quiet little moments, a world seemingly on the verge of implosion. But also the passage of time, people who disappear, love as an act of resistance, and the strange mix of euphoria and despair that comes from simply being alive right now.
Pre-order embraced for a second as we die here:
https://thesatchisix.lnk.to/embraced
High-res images are available here
Photo credit: Julia Mård
embraced for a second as we die tracklist:
1. common, like the end
2. mexico
3. grasp
4. groby
5. sick of time
6. never known like that
7. is this how you said you’d be gone
8. a mindless dark
9. ours is a silent sun
10. the moon in e minor
Tour dates:
4 Mar – Berlin, DE @ Privatclub
5 Mar – Nijmegen, NL @ Merleyn
6 Mar – Brussels, BE @ Botanique
8 Mar – Amsterdam, NL @ Paradiso
9 Mar – Paris, FE @ Le PopUp du Label
10 Mar – London @ The Lexington – TICKETS
12 Mar – Copenhagen, DK @ Hotel Cecil
14 Apr – Uppsala, SE @ Katalin
15 Apr – Stockholm, SE @ Cirkus
16 Apr – Lund, SE @ Mejeriet
17 Apr – Karlstad, SE @ Scalateatern
18 Apr – Falun, SE @ Magasinet
23 Apr – Oslo, NO @ Rockefeller
24 Apr – Göteborg, SE @ Göteborgs Konserthus
Tickets are available here:
http://www.amandabergman.io/tour
Praise for Your Hand Forever Checking On My Fever:
“The work of a voice obeying no instructions but her own”
Clash
“Distinctive flavour and arresting warmth”
8/10 The Line of Best Fit
“Mature, sumptuous pop”
8/10 Uncut
‘4/5’ Mojo
“A stunning return […] utterly unique”
4.5/5 Far Out
“Airy and light electronic-pop with a sort of muted magnificence about it”
The New Cue
“There is a stoic quality to Amanda Bergman’s voice that elevates both her feelings and the song itself above and beyond wounded heartbreak and onto something that is altogether more transcendental”
God Is In The TV