Nina Winder-Lind – Headfirst

Today, Brighton-based, Swedish songwriter and multi-instrumentalist Nina Winder-Lind, best known as a member of the electrifying “Hagstone rock” band The New Eves, shares a new single/video, “Headfirst,” off her forthcoming debut solo album, Wild Love, out August 14 via Transgressive.

Built around intertwining guitars and propulsive live drums, “Headfirst” begins as a restrained, rhythm-led groove before steadily expanding into an exhilarating full-band crescendo. At its center is Winder-Lind’s unmistakable smoky vocal, delivering a song that is both deeply personal and joyfully untamed. The track follows the release of “This Is Our Life” and “Girls,” the latter of which Outsideleft hailed as “a celebration of riotous and powerful femininity … a remarkable and powerful song that should make everyone excited to hear the forthcoming album.”

 Of the new track, Winder-Lind says: “‘Headfirst’ is the amalgamation of two elements; a spoken poem that I made whilst out on a walk in my neighbourhood, and an odd two harmony guitar riff that I recorded on GarageBand and labeled ‘television guitar.’ The song is a declaration of existence and an ode to movement and emotion. It’s an animal song.”

Though connected to the fierce communal energy of The New Eves, Wild Love inhabits its own distinct emotional landscape. Across eleven songs, Winder-Lind brings together the wealth of her experiences and passions and reflects them back outwards, distilled with shimmering intensity. The album spells out a liberatory vision which she refuses to compromise, one rooted in emotional honesty, ecstatic expression and unfettered selfhood.

Female experience is a constant thread throughout the record, with songs paying tribute to “foremothers” and girls alike in a society that still attempts to pigeonhole women into narrow roles. Yet Wild Love reaches beyond resistance alone. More than anything, the album radiates untrammelled animal energy: an overwhelming sense of aliveness, movement, and emotional abandon.

Winder-Lind’s solo work channels the same raw intensity and liberatory spirit of The New Eves, while revealing a more intimate, deeply personal side to her songwriting. Expanding on the world introduced through her 2023 EP The Spirit Is Carnal and her first collection of poetry, Röd Ska Jag Leva (2025), Wild Love is an ambitious and emotionally expansive body of work from one of the most enthralling new voices in music today. Leaving a searing impression, it demands that we seize life’s very essence with both hands, and do so entirely on our own terms.

Produced by longtime collaborator Jack Ogborne (Bingo Fury, The Cindys), Wild Love was recorded across two Bristol studios, one beneath the iconic Louisiana venue and another inside a converted church. Winder-Lind is joined throughout by her live band, including fellow New Eves member Ella Oona Russell, alongside Finlay Burrows, Edward Deeney and Toma Sapir, with additional contributions from Francesca Brierley (heka, Dorothy).

Originally conceived as an EP before evolving into a full-length with the support of Transgressive, the album combines some of Winder-Lind’s earliest songs with more recent work, united by a singular artistic vision. Central to the album is the electric guitar, both as instrument and symbol, representing the liberatory force of rock’n’roll and the freedom to express feeling in its rawest form.

The album’s title encapsulates its driving spirit: profound connection to the natural world, romantic and platonic love, and devotion to the people, landscapes, and moments that shape a life. Familiar motifs for fans of The New Eves—wildness, mysticism and defiance—are expanded here into something more intimate and autobiographical, threaded through with longing, tenderness and desire.

“The kind of base line is that I am alive,” Winder-Lind says of Wild Love. “I’m so alive and I’m so grateful for that. You get to do all these things and feel all these things and you’re in a body and you get to express yourself and you have to or you’re gonna explode.”

She continues: “They’re all love songs, really. Romantic love, love for my family, my friends, love for the landscape. It’s about intense emotional entanglement with other beings.”

Raised in Stockholm and based in Brighton, Winder-Lind’s artistic identity has been shaped equally by Sweden’s landscapes and the city’s thriving music and activist communities. Across both her solo work and collaborations, her songwriting is defined by a profound connection to life’s intensity, channelled through searing vocals, fearless performance and songs that demand to be felt fully.

Wild Love arrives following the breakout success of The New Eves’ acclaimed debut album The New Eve Is Rising. “One of the most unique releases the folk world has seen in quite some time” (Glide Magazine), The New Eve Is Rising was hailed by Clash as “an unforgettable debut” and praised for its “flurry of post-punk and rustic folk” by Pitchfork, which included it in its list of “The 30 Best Rock Albums of 2025.” Paste called the album “a folk-punk freakout sowed into a strange and raucous strain of rock and roll,” writing that it “sounds unlike anything else I heard this year,” while The Guardian, in its four-star review, wrote that there is “something rather thrilling about being in its presence … it feels exciting, as does [the band’s] future.” The album also appeared in several end-of-year lists from the likes of Dork, Loud & Quiet, Paste, Aquarium Drunkard, Dusted, Hard Of Hearing, Qobuz, Treblezine, and more.

To celebrate the release of Wild Love, Winder-Lind will perform two intimate Rough Trade in-store shows and signings in London and Bristol in August. Additionally, she has announced a run of tour dates in October, with headlining shows in Europe, followed by co-headlining shows in the UK with Heka.

Nina Winder-Lind Tour Dates
Fri. Aug. 14 – London, UK @ Rough Trade East (In-Store Performance and Signing)
Sun. Aug. 16 – Bristol, UK @ Rough Trade (In-Store Performance and Signing)

Thu. Oct. 15 – Amsterdam, NL @ Toekomstmuziek
Sun. Oct. 18 – Brussels, BE @ Witloof Bar
Tue. Oct. 20 – Cologne, DE @ Bumann & Sohn
Wed. Oct. 21 – Berlin, DE @ Neue Zukunft
Tue. Oct. 27 – London, UK @ The Shacklewell Arms*
Wed. Oct. 28 – Leeds, UK @ Attic*
Thu. Oct. 29 – Liverpool, UK @ Quarry*
Fri. Oct. 30 – Bristol, UK @ Café Kino
Sat. Oct. 31 – Falmouth, UK @ Cornish Bank*

*co-headline with Heka

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