The Space Between Alice Boman

• 1 Honey 04:12
• 2 Feels Like A Dream 02:52
• 3 Maybe 02:27
• 4 What Happens To The Heart 02:56
• 5 Night And Day 02:20
• 6 Soon 04:38
• 7 In Circles 03:49
• 8 Where To Put The Pain 03:54
• 9 On And On 03:21
• 10 Space 04:30
• Total Runtime 34:59

Info for The Space Between

Swedish songwriter Alice Boman has been thinking about space a lot lately. The silence between sounds, the unspoken bonds between humans, the enormity of the universe and her place within it. You can follow these mini epiphanies on her stunning new album, The Space Between. Ruminating on intimacy and existential angst, to listen is to hear Boman's thoughts unfurl in real time, her quiet contemplations cocooned in sympathetic arrangements created in collaboration with producer Patrik Berger (Robyn, Lana Del Rey). Berger also produced her 2020 debut album, Dream On, which received widespread praise for it's immersive yet startlingly-intimate soundscapes. The Space Between sees Boman working with a broader palette than that of Dream On, imbued with an enveloping warmth which radiates from her gossamer-light vocals. For "Feels Like A Dream", additional vocals were provided by Perfume Genius, a collaboration that came about via Instagram and was recorded at a distance. It's a journey she hopes listeners will share in, finding comfort in community. Because as Boman knows all too well, when life gets too much, there's always music.

Alice Boma

Alice Bomam
Returning from a self-imposed musical exile following a triumphant run of early releases, haunted Swedish songwriter Alice Boman brings forth new single ‘Dreams’. A bleary-eyed, emotion-packed reflection on the dissolution of hope, it’s a track that’s strengthened by the silence it emerges from. “You need to take a break from it,” says Alice, looking back on her whirlwind early rise. “It really does help. It’s all about listening to your gut.”

Penning her first EPs while sitting by her grandparents old piano, with nothing but a handheld voice recorder to hand, Alice’s first two releases – 2013’s Skisser EP and 2014’s EP II – were a document of her innermost emotions, pieced together in the sanctum of her teenage home. “They weren’t even finished, to my ears,” Alice smiles of those first few pieces, “they were just sketches.”

The tastemaker music press immediately latched onto those honest, barebones depictions of emotional fragility, with features in The Fader, The Guardian, NPR, Entertainment Weekly and radio support from KEXP and 6 Music helping spread the word. Before long, Alice Boman’s delicate bedroom compositions captured hearts and minds across the globe, with those early EPs backed by a packed touring schedule of over 120 shows (including Green Man, Visions and End Of The Road festivals, and tours of the US and Europe) giving the intimate appeal of those first musical forays an exponentially bigger scope.

All the while, Alice retained that delicate authenticity which first captured the attention of her early supporters. Prominent television features on shows including Transparent, Suits, Being Human and Catfish, and feature film inclusion on Paper Towns only furthered the reach of those first two EPs, and in turn fed into her own inspirations. “I tend to watch a lot of movies while writing,” Alice admits, “because you get into another zone.”

Three years on from EP II, ‘Dreams’ finds Alice Boman ready to return to the musical fray. “I wanted to record in a proper studio – I wanted to try something bigger,” she says of her earliest aspirations. That’s something which ‘Dreams’ (and her “almost there” upcoming debut LP) has helped to realise. Taking forty more sketches out to a countryside retreat to whittle down, she emerged with a collection of her strongest, most emotionally potent work to date. ‘Dreams’ is the first taster of that work – fittingly, it was also the first track Alice wrote in the wake of those EPs’ wild success. “It’s so nice to share what you’ve been doing,” Alice continues. “I’m a bit of a perfectionist, but the songs I love the most are far from perfect. I want my songs to feel alive – that’s the magic.” On the evidence of ‘Dreams’, Alice Boman has never been so full of life.

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