Brimheim’s new single “Somebody Else” heralds third album Fables (out Feb 5, 2027)
Brimheim’s new single “Somebody Else” moves with an unusual lightness – playful, upbeat and almost naïve in its candor; it belies a much darker desire: to escape yourself and become someone else entirely. The single arrives with news of Brimheim’s third album Fables – out February 5, 2027.
“Somebody Else” was written during the same breakthrough week as recent single “My Collection.” After months of struggling to find a way forward, Brimheim began crate-digging for 1970s singer-songwriters and flirting with elements of cabaret-style jazz. One day, after bringing these references to the studio, long time collaborator Søren Buhl Lassen played a classic 2-5-1 jazz progression on the piano and Brimheim began singing along. This gave access to a playfulness that had eluded them for months.
However, beneath that playfulness, the song turns on a darker fantasy. “Somebody Else” begins with a broken mirror and an imagined reconstruction: its narrator pieces the shards together into a new, perfect face, then making the reflection large enough to climb inside. The desire to become someone else becomes increasingly surreal – part transformation, part disappearance.
But the significance of “Somebody Else” extends beyond the song itself. Together with “My Collection,” it broke a creative dam, allowing the world of Fables to come into focus.
“My previous record was deliberately eclectic, drawing from many contrasting references. This time, I wanted cohesion. I’ve tried to accomplish that through working with a loose set of dogmas: Everything played by hand, no pitch correction on vocals, and lyrics needed to have an element of the extraordinary. The result is an organic record that, to me, feels out of time.
Fables is a search for what is human and for what still holds meaning — within myself and in our dystopian times. I make art and music to make sense of a foundational feeling of alienation. With this record I was especially interested in recapturing the lost magic and imagination I had access to as a child.”
That search for meaning eventually gave the album its name. Brimheim takes the familiar machinery of the fable – strange encounters, transformations, choices and consequences, but scraps their promise of a tidy moral. Her characters hover at thresholds, caught somewhere between who they are and who they might become. Mirrors, doorways, bells, darkness and discarded things take on lives of their own. Again and again, resolution slips out of reach. Where the fables of childhood tell us what the story means, Fables is more interested in what happens when no answer arrives.
“Somebody Else” is accompanied by a music video directed by Stine Emil, completing the two-part visual story that began with “My Collection.”
The 12-track Fables will be released on vinyl, CD and digitally on February 5, 2027 via Tambourhinoceros. Pre-order Fables here.
