So, our last Swindie blog explained how Sweden's not just ABBA and IKEA meatballs, but also produces some pretty excellent indie music. Geddit…"Swedish" and "indie", "swindie" yeah? Never mind. Anyway, this time round we met Sweden's new ice queen:Sibille Attar has been a Swindie scenester for more than a decade, but the Swindies were unable to crown her their queen, because her musical endeavours always involved lots of other people and alter egos and whatnot. But boooom, her first solo EP The Flowers Bed just came out under her own name: Sibille Attar. Nothing stands between her and the throne anymore. Her solo musings are simple, brilliant, poignant, dreamy, scary and her first music video, for the heart-stirring tune “The Day,” gives me extreme goose bumps.So it feels like it's about time for y’all non-Swedes to learn about our new indie ice queen, so I had a chat with Sibille after her visit to the doctors.Noisey: Hey Sibille, what’s up?Sibille Attar: I'm really tired, actually, I had to go to the doctor this morning. I have a crack in my thumb-bone!What’s going on with your thumb?I got so excited playing claves during Way Out West [the festival, duh] I hit one of the claves too hard. I might have to wear one of those weird thumb protections so I don't hurt it even more. Such a lame rock ’n’ roll injury…That is pretty lame. You just released your first EP to standing ovations in Sweden, is the album going be similar to the EP?Lots of people think the tunes on the EP sound completely different from one and other. I obviously think everything fits together since it all comes from me. However, I do refer to a lot of different things in my lyrics and I listen to a lot of different music. I really wanted to find out how it sounds when I do something on my own, that’s why I recorded a solo album. I find the result pretty crystallised in comparison to how I imagined my music to sound. To me, it all sounds connected.I get shivers when I listen to your music. Do you get shivers too when you're playing it?No, but I get really emotional when I'm writing my music. I can get shivers because some stuff’s tough to go through in my mind. I mean, I write about things I feel strongly about. No matter if they are autobiographical or not. So I can get emotional because I know how I felt when I wrote it and what I was thinking about at the time. If I’m happy with the turnout, I immediately fall in love with my own music. I can listen to it 40 times, which triggers me to do more stuff.What’s your next for you?I want to tour loads and record another album, and work as little as possible in the bookshop I’m currently working in. Not that there’s anything wrong with a nine-to-five, but I just want to do music.Thanks for the chat and take care of your thumb!
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