“The kind of base line is that I am alive… I’m so alive and I’m so grateful for that. I get to do all these things and feel all these things and you’re in a body and you get to express yourself and you have to or you’re gonna explode.”
Nina Winder-Lind’s art is defined by her ability to transmit the vivacity and burning joy of life. You feel it in the electrifying ‘Hagstone rock’ of her output with Brighton four-piece The New Eves, whose acclaimed debut album was one of the most uniquely powerful collections of 2025. It also shines unmistakably and with equal strength on her solo work, which is decidedly more personal but no less defiant.
Following three-track EP ‘The Spirit is Carnal’ (2023) and her first poetry collection, Röd Ska Jag Leva (2025), Winder-Lind’s debut solo album, ‘Wild Love’, is an ambitious body of work from one of the most enthralling new voices in music today. It spells out a liberatory vision which Winder-Lind refuses to compromise for anyone. Female experience is a consistent theme, with songs paying tribute to ‘foremothers’ and girls alike in a society which, for all its professions of equality, still tries to pigeonhole women as either “Madonna or whore” (as the formulation runs on opener ‘Street Hassle’). More than this, however, the album is an expression of untrammelled animal energy. In her words, what all her work has in common is its awe at the force of life, the feeling that, “You’re in a body and you get to express yourself and you have to or you’re gonna explode”. On ‘Wild Love’, that amounts to a set of songs defined by scalding passion. As Winder-Lind reflects, “They’re all love songs, really”. It takes different forms, “romantic love, love for my family, my friends, love for the landscape”, but at its most essential, this is a record about “intense emotional entanglement with other beings”.
Originally conceived as an EP, ‘Wild Love’ was expanded into a full-length collection with the blessing of Winder-Lind’s label Transgressive. In its current form, the album combines some of her earliest songs with more recent works. That they seamlessly blend together in such a coherent artistic statement is testament to a single-minded artistic identity and the human power which is the prerequisite for all of Winder-Lind’s creations.
Though she now lives in Brighton, Winder-Lind’s artistic character has also been distinctly shaped by her upbringing in Sweden. Growing up in Stockholm, she often visited family in more rural parts of the country, developing a deep affinity with the natural world which shows up across her work. In that sense, it is fitting that Winder-Lind cultivated her distinctive vocal style – which pervades ‘Wild Love’ with its passionate bite, enthralling vibrato and devastating command of tone – on long riverside walks, where the rush of the water provided the necessary cover for adolescent attempts to “really really go for it”. Later on, however, after a discouraging three years studying at a classical music college in Stockholm, Winder-Lind wanted to move somewhere she could be immersed in a music scene more suited to her own artistic temperament. While she initially toyed with a move to New York, Brighton seemed a suitable compromise, a little closer to home and host to strong musical and activist communities. Immersing herself in the city’s scene, she cultivated her idiosyncratic musical approach, refusing to be “held back by convention” as she was at music school.
For her debut album, Nina Winder-Lind brings together the wealth of her experiences and passions and reflects them back outwards, distilled with shimmering intensity. The title, ‘Wild Love’, encapsulates the spirit of the record in its optimistic drive at the diverse objects of her devotion and desire. Profound connection to the natural world and an unapologetically unfettered attitude will be familiar motifs to any New Eves fan, but to these are added more personal expressions of romantic and platonic love. Behind it all is the immense vital force that Winder-Lind channels into everything she does. Leaving a searing impression, this record demands that we seize life’s very essence with both hands, and what’s more do so on our own terms.