Last time we caught Sylvaine, she was touring behind her excellent breakout album Nova. This time, touring solo behind her haunting new EP Eg Er Framand (I Am Stranger), she offered something far more intimate, yet no less powerful.
Stripped of a live band, the California-born Norwegian artist leaned into the spectral side of her sound. Pre-recorded synths, layered vocals, and ghostly guitars created an immersive sonic cocoon. The metal was dialed back, but not gone—shoegaze distortion shimmered at the edges, and her harrowing screams still tore through the quiet like a sudden storm.
It was an avant-garde meditation on Scandinavian folk, sung by a mesmerizing, elfish presence who truly feels like a stranger in every land and turns that estrangement into something achingly beautiful.
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