Ida Stein Let Rawness Resonate in the Trip-Hop Adjacent Elegy, ‘It Doesn’t Matter’

As haunting as a synthesis of the dark experimentalism of Chelsea Wolfe, Björk’s arcane spirituality, and Angel Olsen’s pensively hollow sonic soul would be, It Doesn’t Matter by Ida Stein is lush with cavernous melancholy; the kind that chills the synapses while pulling you into the introspective depths of the Norwegian alt-electronica artist. The diaphanous, downtempo, trip-hop adjacent production nestles fragile emotion, prising your own rawness into the spectre of sound. Stein doesn’t reach for resolution; she lets the ache remain exposed, granting the listener a quiet permission to feel without patching up the wound. The syncopated, moody beats and bass lines become illustrations of the lyrical weight, abstract yet razor sharp as they hit nerves you didn’t realise were waiting to be struck. Her spectral vocal presence sits between lament and invocation, pulling you closer with its paradoxical intimacy. Already celebrated across Norway and Germany, with performances at by:Larm and Slottsfjell and her music woven into Netflix’s El Club and NRK’s Unge Lovende, Stein has cultivated an unmistakable voice in the alt scene. After collaborations with names like Nils Hoffmann and Ben Alexander, she now builds towards her debut self-produced album, Bring It On, due later in 2025, which […] The post Ida Stein Let Rawness Resonate in the Trip-Hop Adjacent Elegy, ‘It Doesn’t Matter’ appeared first on A&R Factory.

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As haunting as a synthesis of the dark experimentalism of Chelsea Wolfe, Björk’s arcane spirituality, and Angel Olsen’s pensively hollow sonic soul would be, It Doesn’t Matter by Ida Stein is lush with cavernous melancholy; the kind that chills the synapses while pulling you into the introspective depths of the Norwegian alt-electronica artist. The diaphanous, downtempo, trip-hop adjacent production nestles fragile emotion, prising your own rawness into the spectre of sound. Stein doesn’t reach for resolution; she lets the ache remain exposed, granting the listener a quiet permission to feel without patching up the wound. The syncopated, moody beats and bass lines become illustrations of the lyrical weight, abstract yet razor sharp as they hit nerves you didn’t realise were waiting to be struck. Her spectral vocal presence sits between lament and invocation, pulling you closer with its paradoxical intimacy. Already celebrated across Norway and Germany, with performances at by:Larm and Slottsfjell and her music woven into Netflix’s El Club and NRK’s Unge Lovende, Stein has cultivated an unmistakable voice in the alt scene. After collaborations with names like Nils Hoffmann and Ben Alexander, she now builds towards her debut self-produced album, Bring It On, due later in 2025, which […]

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