Eva808 - I AM MOTHER NATURE (Original Molecule Placement Soundtrack) (2026)

Icelandic producer EVA808 chases a ’23 debut LP, and flip of Björk, with a sturdy 2nd album of finely textured, amorphous electronic sound design at the service of tumultuous, atmospheric storytelling and mutant songcraft.

In theme and tone ‘I Am Mother’ is, perhaps inevitably, comparable to work by the land of fire & ice’s greatest export, Björk. With the obvious out of the way, the Sweden-based artist EVA808 presents as a compelling new mutation of whatever it is that makes Icelandic music so curious, variously feeling her way along lines of bittersweet melody and curdled harmonic complexities that tile up to a unique conception of contemporary electronica meets post rock, deconstructed dance and skewed future-folk-pop urges. It’s a tricky one to fully get a grip on, such is the slippery quality of her fractal surface detailing synced to unusual rhythm programming - the sort of insectoid scuttle and mercurial fluidity that 33EMYBW also specialises in, and also heard on Sideproject’s gear for Svbkvlt.

It’s positively teeming with nanoscopic movement at every point of the hour-long trip between her skull-rub resonant electronics on ‘Dópamín (Opening Credits)’ and transition from doomy chorales to sci-fi gynoid vox on ‘End Credits’ - titular poles that hint at the album’s hyper-organismic, cinematic nature. Their skewed songwriting comes to the fore in brittle squirm of ‘Ballpointpen’, and somewhere adjacent Ziúr on the clash of sodden textures and scythed drums to ‘Anda’, leading to her ruggedest rhythm on ‘Ulooklikeapainting’, and future-folk urges obliquely expressed on ‘Ískallt’. A constant patina of crack-bug itch riddles it all, relatively tempered in a rap joint ‘Loose Teeth’ ft. Jam Baxter, and practically threatening to consume it all, emulsify skin, bones and tissue, in the phantasmic, posthuman theme and density of ‘I’mjustsomeonethatdreamtshewasahumanbutnowthatdreamisover.’