New Music: Big Fox – Beast

Big Fox – aka Swedish musician and artist Charlotta Perers – takes pop music and melds it with social commentary on the listener-friendly electro-folk of Beast. You can watch the accompanying video, which was curated by Perers and her partner Anna Brånhede, below.

She cites artists such as Feist, Nick Drake and Nina Simone as inspirations, and that strand of reflective folk lyrics does come through on Beast. Wedded with that is a vocal and thematic similarity to Charlotte Gainsbourg: the absorption of decades of classic pop and melodic indie into something that manages to be both intensely adult yet also open and engaging. The gentle unwinding of the arrangement is deceptive, as this song packs one heck of a punch lyrically.

Big Fox says about the song: “We’re often so good at rationally explaining and justifying our actions that we end up convincing ourselves that we had no other choice. Maybe we didn’t. But the heart never forgets the eyes of the one we have betrayed. The heart never forgets. I wasn’t sure if I could write this song. Finish it. Balance it. It seemed so fragile, tipped over so easily. But it was almost as if it wanted to be written, needed to be. Sometimes maybe even the difficult subjects need their pop costume.”

You can catch up with news about Beast, Big Fox and the new album on her Instagram and Facebook socials.

See how the light falls is due for release on March 20, 2020 via Hybris Records.

Photo by Anna Brånhede