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Release Date: 2022-11-18Label: RITE Label
November 18 2022, Badlands — aka transboundary Swedish producer, composer and sound designer Catharina Jaunviksna — releases her new album Call to Love. Across eight tracks, Jaunviksna has created an immensely personal body of work that’s full of juxtapositions, at once both meditative and restless, dreamy yet carnal — oftentimes within the same song — the way that love tends to be. “It’s a tribute to love in all its wonderful, brutal, mean, horny and embarrassing forms,” she explains. Throughout, analogue compositions thread new wave, warehouse dub, trip-hop, and disco influences into Badlands’ distinctly unconventional electronic pop."The distinct sound of Swedish composer/producer Badlands—a.k.a. Catharina Jaunviksna—has been dubbed "outlaw electronica," which is an apt description for her gritty mix of electro and orchestral instrumentation, fusing hints of classic trip-hop, new wave, warehouse dub, and disco.
The new album Call to Love will be released November 18 via RITE, building upon the soundscapes of her acclaimed 2021 album DJINN. Incorporating vinyl samples, field recordings, and analogue malfunctions and overdubs into her mix, Call to Love brings to mind the best elements of Bristol legends Portishead and Massive Attack."
- Randy Bookasta, FLOOD Magazine