{"title":"Lina Tullgren","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eLina Tullgren is a singer\/songwriter hailing from Massachusetts. With her unique blend of indie rock and folk influences, she captivates audiences with her heartfelt lyrics and soulful voice. Lina's music tells stories of love, loss, and self-discovery, resonating with listeners on a deep emotional level. Her powerful performances have earned her a dedicated fanbase and critical acclaim in the music industry. Experience the raw talent and undeniable passion of Lina Tullgren through her captivating melodies and thought-provoking lyrics.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"free-cell","title":"Free Cell","description":"\u003cp\u003eMainly recorded and produced at Brooklyn’s Figure 8 Studios, with Ty Ueda later assisting on final tracking at his Mount Misery studio, Lina Tullgren’s \u003ci\u003eFree Cell\u003c\/i\u003e is masterfully confident. Some rock elements like nonlinear song structures and syncopated rhythms bleed over from the debut album Won era on tracks like \u003ci\u003e110717\u003c\/i\u003e, but the album offers a wider musical palette than its predecessor, with lush arrangements utilizing strings, brass and sculpted synths throughout. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eGolden Babyland \u003c\/i\u003eabounds in tension and claustrophobia, finding Tullgren alone and “in the kitchen melting Legos,” while the elegant and introspective ballad \u003ci\u003eBad at Parties\u003c\/i\u003e scores a moment of quiet social paralysis. The strings (arranged by Simon Hanes) that carry through \u003ci\u003eFree Cell\u003c\/i\u003e echo back to Tullgren’s education as a classical violinist, and Lina moves deftly between these various soundscapes, resulting in their most dynamic music to date.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThroughout \u003ci\u003eFree Cell\u003c\/i\u003e, Tullgren looks back on their memories from the position of an analyst, often cool and cynical but always with an undercurrent of humor and deep feeling. In their poetry Lina Tullgren writes anthems for the alienated, for those alone on busses, at parties, at their parents’ house, for those who cannot help but feel lonely even if they are surrounded by others. 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Made with a host of Los Angeles musicians, Decide exposes Tullgren's daring and trust. Each song is a ring of curious sound: the skip of harp strings, the flutter of woodwinds, the ratchet of percussion, the euphonium's sigh. And at the center of each wreath, Tullgren sings, finding this space between Judee Sill and Sam Jayne. It's a tone that signals weariness, but a weariness hand-in-hand with tenacity. There's a clarity, a kind of immovability. Lina Tullgren's first record came in 2016, a homemade, under-the-skin set of laments. Subsequent LPs and constant touring cemented Tullgren's reputation as a composer of \"wide-eyed wonder paired with a resonant despair.\" 2019's Free Cell showed Tullgren lingering in the margins of their songs, finding places both aloof and spare. Floodgates opened; Tullgren spent the subsequent years exploring deep listening, improvised music, and extended technique. They developed a patience and faith in cooperation that ranged at the far edge of song. Collaborations with Mayo Thompson and Claire Rousay furthered this development. This was not a break with the past for Tullgren, rather it was an opportunity to see how far a song could go. And from that distance, deep in a landscape of drone and tension, Tullgren returned to the bright vulnerability of a lyric and a hook. Weaving together the affective and the radical, Tullgren took the quiet isolation of a shoreline cabin to write the songs that would become Decide Which Way The Eyes Are Looking. For Tullgren, Decide is a culmination of all the work they've done throughout their life: the melodic, the dense, the confessional, the unknowable. It's also a tribute to collaboration. Describing the sessions as having \"a lot of space and a lot of ease,\"\" Tullgren invited musicians from a vast field of songmaking to play on the recording: Leng Bian, Zach Burba, Luke Csehak, Corey Fogel, Jenny Hirons, Tara Milch, Tim Ramsey, Michael Sachs, Jude Tedaldi, Marta Tiesenga and Ben Varian. Jonny Kosmo's backhouse was offered as a cozy, easygoing space for the players to create their parts together, and the record was completed by Tullgren and Luke Csehak together at their Los Angeles home. In Tullgren's words: \"I feel really strongly that this album is a portrait of the community I found in Los Angeles.\" Decide Which Way The Eyes Are Looking is a quiet masterpiece: a generous, memorable journey. It is the result of five years of labor, the product of abandoning the pop song entirely and starting over. 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