Nina Winder-Lind – Girls
Nina Winder-Lind has announced her debut solo album, “Wild Love”, out August 14 on Transgressive. The lead single is “Girls”, and it’s a clear step away from the collective intensity of The New Eves (W40), the Brighton band she’s best known for.
The song started as a poem, written alone one night, listing things girls want to do. Winder-Lind says writing it surfaced both empowerment and old loneliness, and that tension carries through the track: simmering keyboard underneath, then guitar, cello and trombone building toward a more open, electric-guitar-driven close. The lyrics work in plain, declarative lines, “girls want to break everything, girls want to play guitar”, and the closing turn, where she sings about not understanding her own power until later in life, lands as a quiet gut-punch rather than a big statement.
“Wild Love” was produced by Jack Ogborne, who also worked on The New Eves’ debut, and recorded live to tape across two Bristol spaces: a room beneath the Louisiana venue and a converted church. Winder-Lind’s regular live band plays throughout, including New Eves bandmate Ella Oona Russell. It follows her 2023 EP “The Spirit Is Carnal” and a 2025 poetry collection, “Röd Ska Jag Leva”, so this isn’t someone stepping into songwriting cold.
I wasn’t sure a solo spinoff from a band this distinctive would carry its own weight, but “Girls” does. It’s rawer in places than the full-band New Eves sound, and that suits the subject matter better than I expected.
