Heidrunna’s debut single «You Make Me Feel» are out!
Introducing one of Iceland’s brightest new pop acts, Reykjavik’s Heidrunna, her playful new single - «You Make Me Feel», an electronic fuelled pop-romp.
With a voice so effortless she makes it look easy, Heidrunna’s delicately nuanced tone has perfected itself through her time being a member of an Icelandic girl choir, before inherently moving further into the spotlight and becoming the lead vocalist in native pop troubadours, Cigarette.
This dreamish voice of Heidrunna’s gleams in «You Make Me Feel», her effervescent new single infused with pulsating synths; adding another dimension to an already overtly vibrant soundscape.
The track exhibits the Icelandic melodist in her most compelling form, serenading with each lyric sung. «Tonight, I’m yours / You are mine / I know a place we can hide / Take our clothes off / Let loose.», Heidrunna sets free her imagination, commanding her way through the track’s duration and expressing her frame of mind along the way. «Imagine you’re around me / The things you do to me / Move onto me slowly / Come here, you want to know me».
Heidrunna says to me : «’You Make Me Feel ‘is about meeting someone for the first time and feeling this electric connection, just when you least expect it. Also at the time I was heavily into Prince and it’s inspired by his honesty and simplicity in his writing, rhythm and structure».
The beguiling aura of Heidrunna is one reminiscent of artists such as Nina Persson, Vanessa Paradis and Charlotte Gainsburg – all of who treat their voices as instruments, as done so evidently by Heidrunna in the song’s post-chorus. ‘You Make Me Feel’ is the first track taken from Heidrunna’s debut album – «Melodramatic» coming out early 2022. On board for production is Liam Howe whose portfolio includes the likes of Lana Del Rey, MARINA, FKA twigs and Ellie Goulding. With ‘«Melodramatic»,he and Heidrunna have rewritten the guidebook, conjuring up the kind of impenetrably-authentic ‘80s backdrop that you’d be hard pushed to pick out in a line-up of the finest electronic albums of an era it presumably seeks to emulate and acknowledge in equal measure.
Heidrunna’s personal influences include post-punk ‘80s artists like Blondie, pioneering synth-based techno-crafters, Kraftwerk and Giorgio Moroder, but also the style and romanticism of French artists like Serge Gainsburg, Daft Punk, Air and Phoenix.