On her second EP, “Meet Me Behind Closed Eyelids”, Isolde Molarin shapes the sound and production as well as the visual aesthetic and storytelling. Her voice sits alongside synthesizers and organic rhythms in music drawing on pop, R&B and jazz. The record’s range extends from bossa nova rhythms to dark techno and quiet piano passages.
A garden provides the central image for the inner worlds people carry with them. “I imagine the world as a physical place, a flourishing garden where we meet. The idea is that the more we water ourselves, the more our inner places bloom,” she says.
The focus track, “Embroidery”, turns to the recognition of destructive patterns. Over a pulsing rhythm, needlework becomes a metaphor for how small actions and repeated choices accumulate into a larger design.
“Paris” is a dreamlike interlude, pairing classical piano with an atmospheric, ambient soundscape. Molarin describes the sound behind the piano as her imagined sound of that garden.
Her debut EP, “Now you’re holding my heart”, arrived in 2023. Three subsequent singles, each accompanied by a music video, are included on the new record.
“Stockholm” concerns reclaiming a home after it has become coloured by the absence of someone the narrator must learn to live without. Its video gives that loss a fantastical visual narrative: an angel who has been shot moves through the city’s underground railway before being reborn as a silver angel above the rooftops.
In “Someone Better”, the garden imagery takes the form of coming into bloom by allowing oneself a loving relationship. The song addresses breaking destructive relationship habits and daring to want more for oneself.
Swelling synthesizers and a bossa nova beat underpin “longer & linger”. Its story follows a short-lived encounter, feelings held back and the acceptance that a romance will not last.
