SASSY 009 RELEASES HEART EGO MIXTAPE OUT TODAY VIA LUFT RECORDINGS

Today, Sassy 009 releases her mixtape Heart Ego via Oslo-based label Luft Recordings. LISTEN TO HEART EGO HERE.

With praise so far from the likes of Pitchfork, NME, Crack Magazine, i-D, Crack and more, the mixtape features standout tracks ‘Blue Racecar‘, ‘Here Comes The Weekend‘, ‘Mystery Boy‘, and ‘Red Plum‘.

“‘Heart Ego’ is the most ambitious project I’ve done so far in my career, yet the project I have had the most trouble defining. Framing it as a mixtape was like finding home. The actual structuring and understanding of my compositions is simply a result of how I think it should feel, and not necessarily in line with a structure someone else completely understands.”, explains Sunniva Lingård aka Sassy 009 on her mixtape.

The bulk of the release was written throughout the winter of 2019 into 2020 in Lindgård’s mum’s apartment, before being re-recorded and produced in Luft Studio with friend and colleague Baya, discarding a lot of the original ideas and whittling it down to the hazy-yet-taut pop that remains.

“Ultimately with this, I want to prove that I am a better musician today than yesterday” she says. “And feel that the risk of spending tremendous amounts of hours in my bedroom was worth it. I think that’s the biggest concern, more than a statement, that my time has been spent well.”

Listening to Heart Ego it’s hard to deny that it hasn’t. Sassy 009 remains a singular project, a hyper-pop project that feels like its hurtling through space, a balance of acceleration and phantasmagoria, of physicality and weightlessness.

SASSY 009
Heart Ego
buy/stream it here.