Tula

According to Berlin-based Tula, her new single "Another Kind of Red" is "about defining what is freedom for you and following this fully," an arduous journey the song's composition reflects with trance-inducing accuracy. The verses feel cavernous and wandering, dotted by soft electronic blips that surface and disappear to complement disorienting lines like "I turn and turn inside my head," but these eventually dissolve as clarity prevails in the form of a powerful flashbang chorus that unshackles a host of swelling sounds: "And the soundIt's so loudIn my head" Another kind of redIs written in the snowToday I am a bird" The painful permanence of red-stained snow, the contrast of independence and release -- it's a simple, gorgeous, and quite visual exploration of emotional liberation. What's more, Tula and producer Klas Åhlund recorded it in an isolated lighthouse on the southern coast of Sweden, which is just about the coolest thing I've ever heard.