BRIMHEIM ANNOUNCES THIRD ALBUM FABLES, SHARES NEW SINGLE “SOMEBODY ELSE”

The Danish-Faroese artist’s new record arrives February 5, 2027, with a run of UK and European dates set for May

Brimheim is stepping into a strange new world. The Danish-Faroese artist has announced her third album, Fables, arriving February 5, 2027 via Tambourhinoceros, alongside the release of new single “Somebody Else” — a deceptively playful slice of vintage-inspired pop with a darker desire at its core.

Moving with an unusual lightness, “Somebody Else” pairs upbeat, almost naïve candour with a surreal fantasy of self-erasure. Built around the image of a broken mirror, the track follows its narrator as she pieces together a new, “perfect” face from the shards, imagining a reflection large enough to climb inside. The accompanying video, directed by Stine Emil, completes the visual story begun with previous single “My Collection.”

Written during the same breakthrough week as “My Collection,” the track emerged after months of creative deadlock. Brimheim — the project of Malmö-based Danish-Faroese musician Helena Heinesen Rebensdorff — began digging into the work of 1970s singer-songwriters, while exploring cabaret-style jazz. A classic 2-5-1 jazz progression played by longtime collaborator Søren Buhl Lassen unlocked a newfound sense of playfulness, helping bring the world of Fables into focus.

The 12-track album sees Brimheim turn the familiar framework of the fable on its head. Rather than offering neat morals or tidy resolutions, its characters inhabit strange in-between spaces, caught between transformation and disappearance, certainty and the unknown. Mirrors, doorways, bells and discarded objects become symbols in a collection that feels closer to Kafka than Aesop.

Following the heavy touring cycle behind 2024’s RATKING, Brimheim retreated to a small cottage on the Faroese island of Nólsoy with Lassen. Against a backdrop of February darkness and violent storms, the pair found themselves drawn toward the harmonic language of progressive 1970s singer-songwriters, including Dory Previn, Judee Sill, Scott Walker and Nick Drake.

“I wanted cohesion,” Brimheim explains, describing a set of creative rules that shaped the record: everything played by hand, no vocal pitch correction, and lyrics with an element of the extraordinary.

“Fables is a search for what is human and for what still holds meaning — within myself and in our dystopian times,” she says. “With this record I was especially interested in recapturing the lost magic and imagination I had access to as a child.”

Fables will be released on vinyl, CD and digitally on February 5, 2027 via Tambourhinocerous.

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