Swedish singer and songwriter Sarah Klang has released her anticipated full-length album, Beautiful Woman. Produced by Eric D. Johnson (Fruit Bats, Bonny Light Horseman), Beautiful Woman sees Sarah use her own lived experiences to unpack the very essence of what it means to be a woman today.
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Sarah Klang (Fredrika Eriksson)
Klang shares: “Ultimately, Beautiful Woman is a celebration of womanhood and girlhood. It doesn’t really have a lot of love songs; it’s not focussed on a specific guy. This is an album about the awkwardness of being a child, a teenager and about understanding your relationship with your body and self in a patriarchal world.”
Spanning childhood to the tumultuous teenage years and into young adult life, its topics wanting to fit in (Other Girls), revisiting painful memories from childhood (Childhood), needing love but worrying about the co-dependency that comes with it (Last Forever), and issues of body confidence as adulthood approaches (Beautiful Woman). It’s a fresh, but equally comforting set of deeply personal, introspective tracks from an artist for whom such reflection comes naturally.
Beautiful Woman is also the product of a new creative process for Klang, who switched her previous preference for home recordings by heading to Los Angeles, where her Go To The Sun co-writers, the aforementioned GRAMMY®-nominated producer Eric D. Johnson and her regular collaborator / co-producer Theodor Stocks led sessions which focused on live performances with the help of top tier musicians such as drummer Josh Adams (Cat Power, Beck) and bassist Josh Mease (The Weeknd, Fruit Bats). The process was completed with similarly highly accomplished contributions, with mixing by Jarvis Taveniere (King Gizzard, Avalanches) and mastering by Heba Kabry (Big Thief, Björk, Future Islands). Listen to Beautiful Woman HERE.
Check out a live performance of the new LP’s title track Beautiful Woman below:
Sarah Klang has always had a talent for autobiographical songwriting, like on her acclaimed debut Love In The Milky Way’(2018), which won Best Album at the Swedish Grammis awards. It continued on Creamy Blue (2019), which earned two more Grammis nominations as well as a nod for European Album Of The Year at the IMPALA Awards. While her sound had previously touched upon ‘60 and ‘70s pop, Americana, and an undercurrent of country, 2021’s acclaimed VIRGO added elements of ‘80s synth-pop to the mix and led to a second Grammis, this time for Best Alternative Pop. In 2023, Sarah signed to Nettwerk and released Mercedes, which earned yet another Grammis nomination (Best Pop Album of the Year) as well as widespread international praise.
Sarah Klang will follow the release of the Beautiful Woman album by heading out on a European headline tour, followed by U.S. dates at SXSW and in Los Angeles on 17th March at the Moroccan Lounge. The European tour includes a date in London at the Metronome on the 29th April.
Upcoming Live Dates:
FEBRUARY
26th – Stockholm @ Fållan
27th – Malmö @ Plan B
28th – Norrköping @ Arbis
MARCH
1st – Uppsala @ Katalin
2nd – Oslo @ Cosmopolite
4th – Gothenburg @ Pustervik
14th – Austin, TX @ SXSW (showcase details TBA)
17th – Los Angeles, CA @ Moroccan Lounge
APRIL
28th – Amsterdam @ Bitterzoet
29th – London @ Metronome
30th – Paris, @ L’Archipel
MAY
2nd – Berlin @ Lido
3rd – Copenhagen @ Hotel Cecil
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