Linn Holm aka LINN is a Copenhagen-based DIY art-rocker, who has her debut EP Happy Metal coming out on November 20. Following on from lead single “Frozen Pizza”, she today shares the EP’s title track, saying:
“[Happy Metal is] a song about trying not to take things too seriously and being a little less pretentious. In Danish we have a saying that goes something like “it’s not a matter of what happens to you, but how you cope with it” I wrote a verse and it seemed a little dark and depressing, so I wanted to twist it with a bit of humor. That’s also why the song and EP are called ‘Happy Metal’, I like to play around with genres, contrasts and moods.”
A lo-fi beat (recorded on iPhone) forms the spine of “Happy Metal”, and gives the impression of someone just pounding away in their spare room to let out the frustration, while her monotone voice attempts to stay cool. LINN keeps adding in more tactile layers of found sounds and electronic adornments to create a little safe space, where she starts to open up emotionally. Once the floodgates are open, “Happy Metal” keeps building up a head of steam with her vocal multiplying and twanging guitar flicking all around, until the song is a noodling mass of ideas that flies onwards until LINN has had enough, and suddenly ends it.
LINN’s Happy Metal comes out on November 20. You can find her on Instagram and Facebook.
