Brimheim Returns with Cabaret-tinged Chamber Pop on New Single “My Collection”
“My Collection” introduces a striking new musical language for Brimheim. Built around piano and steeped in the harmonic world of 1970s singer-songwriters, the track begins as a woozy, almost jazzy ballad before expanding into playful, cabaret-tinged chamber pop, with organ, trumpet and Mellotron gathering around Brimheim’s velvety voice.
Lyrically, “My Collection” opens up a more fictional and dreamlike corner of Brimheim’s songwriting. The song is narrated by a mysterious collector whose greatest treasures are things other people have discarded: objects found in the street, dredged from the ocean floor or picked up on the beach. For Brimheim, those forgotten objects stand in for rejected parts of ourselves — qualities hidden away because they were not valued by others. The collector shows them off with almost childlike pride, but she is fiercely protective of them. Admiration is welcome. Disrespect comes with fatal consequences.
“My Collection” is accompanied by a music video directed by Stine Emil, continuing a collaboration that began with videos for “Brand New Woman” and “Normies.” Shot on a weathered horse farm, the video inhabits a world deliberately difficult to place in time — could be now, could be a hundred years ago. Like the song, it draws on the past without quite belonging to it. Iconic Danish actor Trine Dyrholm delivers the voice over.
