Nicole Saboune - Kismet (2023)

Nicole Saboune will release her fourth album "Kismet", a soundtrack that no-one ordered or asked for but which fits perfectly with the listener's everyday, miserable or wonderful life. A both powerful and intimate song cycle that is tied together by a recurring melodic theme and whose sonic ideal was taken from the idea that it would be a soundtrack to a Sofia Coppola film. "I wanted it to feel grand but at the same time fragile, I like how Sofia Coppola often succeeds in conveying just that feeling," says Nicole.

On the album, where there are also influences from both krautrock and Massive Attack, Nicole Saboune has written some of the songs herself and others together with Billy Cervin. In addition, Nicklas Stenemo (Kite) and Bjorn Yttling (Peter Bjorn and John, Lykke Li) figure as songwriters on each song. Jon Bordon has been a co-producer - together with Nicole and Billy - as well as mixing.

Nicole Saboune released her critically acclaimed first full-length "Must Exist" in 2014. The follow-up "Miman" from 2015, inspired by Harry Martinsson's epic "Aniara", was named the best album of the year by Fredrik Strage. In 2021, the Jenny Wilson-produced third album "Attachment Theory" came, which prompted Nojesguiden to write: "Nicole Saboune seems to have simply found her way home."