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Tobias Arbo

"Sirens"

Swedish songwriter, producer and multi-instrumentalist Tobias Arbo releases one last single, "Sirens", from his debut album.

"Sirens is about falling in love on a distance and the fictional platform it creates around that person. When the frame is nothing but a voice and texts, when your fantasy is free to paint what it wants to see, creating that blurry line between what’s real and what you’ve made up."

Tobias Arbo's first full length album, YELLOW WOODS, is scheduled for release August 30th.

Album and single were produced together with Linus and Hannes Hasselberg (Plasí, Moonica Mac, Melissa Horn, Cleo), and mixed by Zach Hanson (Bon Iver, Owen, Sylvan Esso, Waxahatchee). Artwork and press pictures were created by photographer Olof Grind (Phoebe Bridgers, boygenius, First Aid Kit, Veronica Maggio).

While his debut EP POWERLINES, released in March 2023, pondered on the topic of forgiveness to oneself and had Tobias Arbo grapple with the question why he out of all people may deserve to put out music (a nonsensical notion a lot of artists can relate to), this first body of work helped him approach his art more candidly. "I guess it’s part of living, it helped me and it had a lot to do with me and my relationship to music." POWERLINES earned him features in Americana (UK), SVT (Sweden's National TV), GAFFA (Scandinavia's leading entertainment print magazine), Bands of Tomorrow (DK), Nöjesguiden (SE) and more, evoking comparisons to the likes of Sufjan Stevens, Bon Iver or fellow Swede José González. CLASH found the EP was "blending folk aspects with pop tropes", where "each song feels shot through with light."