SASSY 009 - Dreamer+

After almost a decade of activity, Norwegian producer and composer Sunniva Lindgård, aka Sassy 009, finally reaches the milestone of her debut album. "Dreamer+" draws freely on a multitude of musical influences and reworks them in an original way: the hazy atmosphere that binds the whole collection together is jagged with manipulated vocals, dream-pop landscapes, trip-hop beats, abrasive outbursts and hyperpop glitches. And while the backdrop always remains intangible, industrial scratches and guitar eruptions in full post-grunge style bring a physical dimension into this dreamlike world.

And yet the body on the dancefloor becomes evanescent, the faces of the people around it, when seen against the light, turn out to be ghostly, and even the erotic encounter in "Someone" dematerializes into an intangible vision wrapped in digitized matter. Still, the pulse of the bass throbs in the veins, and Cupid's arrows are certainly no less precise:

'Cause I need someone

Who knows my body, my temper

Someone shooting arrows at me

Makes me feel like someone

No need to say it

I need someone

Who gets it, who gets it, who gets me

Someone who gets it like you do

"Dreamer+" overflows with ideas, often interesting ones, but since they never seem to converge on a single point, all these multidirectional impulses are also the record's limitation, shaping a sonic microcosm that expands in a rather chaotic way. That said, it's a flaw that doesn't cancel out the excellent results of some tracks. Sure, Sassy 009 may have indulged her explosive creativity without any restraint, but who could blame her? The path she's on is the right one, and so is the raw material she's working with: all that's needed now is some careful chiseling and a bit of distance to reflect on how to reshape the various experiments already carried out.

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05/02/2026