Since releasing her self-titled debut album as Oh Land in 2011, Nanna Øland Fabricius has done it all—beyond releasing five (soon to be six) more records, she’s opened for everyone from Katy Perry to Coldplay and collaborated with everyone from Pharrell to Sia (to say nothing of an acting debut alongside fellow countryman Mads Mikkelsen in a 2014 revisionist western). Her latest record Loop Soup, though, sees her heading backward in time to the psychedelic era of the late-’60s and early-’70s, with Alejandro Jodorowsky and Barbarella among the figures on the songwriter’s image board for the project.
Yet the record’s latest single feels a little more rooted in the mid-’00s, with “Bucket List”—the title itself invoking a feel-good comedy from that era—name-dropping The Notebook in its heartfelt lyrics recited over an instrumental that recalls Sunlandic Twins–era of Montreal. “This song is a bucket list of things I want my love to do, in case I die first,” the musician shares. “I hate the fact that we are all going to die one day, and I’d much prefer a romantic simultaneous spooning sleep-in with my man when we are both 100. But in case I’ll go first, here’s what he needs to do for me.”
The upbeat messaging in the face of the song’s existential subject matter pairs nicely with its psych-tinged nu-disco sound. Check out the track below.
