Becky and the Birds
Self-produced Swedish art pop built from voices, strings and glitches
From Sweden
Thea Gustafsson layers supple R&B phrasing into choirs of pitched vocals, delicate piano, strings, acoustic guitar, fractured beats and snippets of everyday recordings. Live, those intimate studio collages should expand into a dramatic art-pop set centred on Only Music Makes Me Cry Now.
More about Becky and the Birds
Gustafsson trained at Musikmakarna and later interned at Avicii's studio before establishing Becky and the Birds as a fully self-written, recorded and produced project. A self-released 2018 debut led to 4AD's Trasslig EP and the 2024 album Only Music Makes Me Cry Now; 4AD first contacted her after hearing a song she posted independently on SoundCloud.
Playing
- 2026-11-05 · Pitchfork Avant-Garde · POPUP! · POPUP!
Labels
Start here
- I made my baby cry (2024) · 4AD
Piano, strings and stacked vocals in one sharp emotional release - Trasslig (2020) · 4AD
The concise bridge between her early R&B and experimental pop
Worked with
- Dijon collaborated on The Stranger
- Spencer. collaborated on After the Show
- Seinabo Sey past collaborator
- Låpsley past collaborator
For fans of
James Blake, Grimes, SOPHIE, FKA twigs, Purity RingOfficial links
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