First Listen: Molly Nilsson, 'Twenty Twenty'
Around this time last year, Molly Nilsson was thinking a lot about the number 2020. On tour in 2017, she got stranded at the airport in Tokyo. There were big signs on the walls that read "2020," pasted in anticipation of Japan's summer Olympics. But to Nilsson it meant something different. The number crept into her dreams; she realized it was going to be a leap year, she thought about vision, about capitalism, superstition and repetition.
will be the, chain-smoking, getting a spilled on her at a party, remembering — and the anxieties and appetites that accompany them. On , she's more concerned than ever with what those fragments expose, what it means to try to figure out who you are . She makes self-discovery in 2018 sound ominous and fun and painful at once.
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