Copenhagen-based musician Andrea Novel, who takes her name from an unearthed 2,000-year-old body of a girl in Yde, exposes how moods are as easy to categorize as trying to hold a shadow on her latest single. “Often I feel good, but I’m unused to to it / So I end up alien in my own happiness,” Ydegirl reveals on the opening line of “Zodiac.” The entrancing song combines chamber pop, R&B, and cautious string arrangements while pointing out the contradictions and paradoxes of poignant emotions.
The new single comes with a video directed by Thinh Petrus Nguyen and features Denmark’s famous all-girl marching band. “At the time, I was reading [Preliminary Materials for a] Theory of the Young-Girl so this non-gendered concept of the Young-Girl as everyone was on my mind and infiltrating with the image of the marching band in their uniforms. ‘Zodiac’ hides behind this coming-of-age theme, but really it’s about everyone experience poly-moodiness,” Novel said of the video.
Watch the video below.
