Of the new track, Winder-Lind says: “‘Headfirst’ is the amalgamation of two elements; a spoken poem that I made whilst out on a walk in my neighbourhood, and an odd two-harmony guitar riff that I recorded on GarageBand and labeled ‘television guitar.’ The song is a declaration of existence and an ode to movement and emotion. It’s an animal song.”

Brighton-based, Swedish songwriter and multi-instrumentalist Nina Winder-Lind, best known as a member of the electrifying “Hagstone rock” band The New Eves, shares a new single/video, “Headfirst,” off her forthcoming debut solo album, Wild Love, out August 14 via Transgressive. Built around intertwining guitars and propulsive live drums, “Headfirst” begins as a restrained, rhythm-led groove before steadily expanding into an exhilarating full-band crescendo. At its center is Winder-Lind’s unmistakable smoky vocal, delivering a song that is both deeply personal and joyfully untamed.

Of the new track, Winder-Lind says: “‘Headfirst’ is the amalgamation of two elements; a spoken poem that I made whilst out on a walk in my neighbourhood, and an odd two harmony guitar riff that I recorded on GarageBand and labeled ‘television guitar.’ The song is a declaration of existence and an ode to movement and emotion. It’s an animal song.

Though connected to the fierce communal energy of The New Eves, Wild Love inhabits its own distinct emotional landscape. Across eleven songs, Winder-Lind brings together the wealth of her experiences and passions and reflects them back outwards, distilled with shimmering intensity. The album spells out a liberatory vision which she refuses to compromise, one rooted in emotional honesty, ecstatic expression and unfettered selfhood.

Female experience is a constant thread throughout the record, with songs paying tribute to “foremothers” and girls alike in a society that still attempts to pigeonhole women into narrow roles. Yet Wild Love reaches beyond resistance alone. More than anything, the album radiates untrammelled animal energy: an overwhelming sense of aliveness, movement, and emotional abandon.

Winder-Lind’s solo work channels the same raw intensity and liberatory spirit of The New Eves, while revealing a more intimate, deeply personal side to her songwriting. Expanding on the world introduced through her 2023 EP The Spirit Is Carnal and her first collection of poetry, Röd Ska Jag Leva (2025), Wild Love is an ambitious and emotionally expansive body of work from one of the most enthralling new voices in music today. Leaving a searing impression, it demands that we seize life’s very essence with both hands, and do so entirely on our own terms.

Photo Courtesy: Silken Weinberg