Daily Dose: Lina Tullgren, “Golden Babyland”
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Lina Tullgren has released the first cut from their forthcoming sophomore effort Free Cell, a woozy, grievous track titled “Golden Babyland.”
Tullgren makes it hurt on “Golden Babyland.” Wobbling over a dull-toned, grumbling bass and warped guitars, they straddle the line between claustrophobic loneliness and anxiety: “In the kitchen melting Legos / I am sick, I am alone.” The song unspools and comes undone as it leads into its coda, where guitars squeal, fidget and go haywire, and Tullgren’s vocals fade to black: “All I want is for someone / To call me the golden babe.”
The visual follows a grieving father as he kidnaps an unsuspecting little boy and tries to recreate a world in which his deceased daughter is still alive. The father rarely looks at the child, intending to maintain suspended disbelief that the child is his own. The video ends on both the man and the child staring at a television screen and crying as police lights fill the room.
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