Mariam the Believer releases glistening new single "Dreams" from forthcoming album
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Mariam the Believer releases glistening new single "Dreams" from forthcoming album

Mariam the Believer (aka Mariam Wallentin) is gearing up to release her brand new record, Breathing Techniques, out October 4 via Repeat Until Death. She has already put a couple singles into the world ("Tiny Animals" and "Home"), and now we're getting a third taste in the form of the glistening "Dreams". Listen below:

The Swedish singer, songwriter, and multi-instrumentalist (who is also known for her work in Wildbirds & Peacedrums, a duo she shares with her husband, drummer Andreas Werliin) hasn't released an album since 2017's Love Everything, which followed her debut record Blood Donation in 2013 (which wound up on TND's Best Albums of the Year list at number 6). Wildbirds & Peacedrums haven't released an album since 2014's Rhythm.

Speaking about the new song, Wallentin says:

“the song was recorded a few years back close to my house on the north Swedish west coast. While pregnant with my second child and at the same time attending a Kundalini teacher training course (both being in person meetings in Berlin and mostly online due to the covid) my feelings of what a home is or can be slowly changed form for the first time in my adult life. Maybe because of the actual smallness of the distances I experienced, the place I lived in, far off in the countryside and far from any big cities, but still being so close to my creative process. And doing breath work with people from other countries online but still hearing each other breathe. And all while my own body was acting as a home to someone. ‘Home’ was not only music and singing, a big palette of a world to travel and meet and experience, but also an actual place where I had chosen to stay for a little while, far away but still so near. A house, a chosen family, a body. A home is to feel safe.”
Mariam the Believer album cover

Breathing Techniques is out October 4. Full tracklist below:

1. Both Arms
2. Home
3. Misty
4. A Heart
5. Breathing Techniques
6. Tiny Animals
7. Dreams
8. Highest Peak

Jeremy J. Fisette

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Writer, musician, editor, podcaster. Editor-in-chief & video editor of The Needle Drop.

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