[Pre-Order] Badlands - Nobody Dies

Badlands new album is due for release 10 October 2025

Badlands 4th studio album "Nobody Dies" is a metafictional journey, tracing rustic folk and post-apocalyptic ambient themes into a bouquet of peculiar lofi-ballads. Inspired by a longing for human primitive musicality, the project embraces a raw sound using old string instruments and electronic scrap; thus exploring our need for authentic expression and synergy in a new fragmented world. Composer, producer and multi-instrumentalist Catharina Jaunviksna’s a.k.a Badlands ever-evolving solo project this time invites guest musicians such as Maggie Björklund (Jack White, Mark Lanegan) on pedal steel guitar and folklorist Ida Mitchell on cello. With its distinct streaks of storytelling, along with a pronounced visual presentation by collage artist OSKARP, “Nobody Dies” is blurring the lines between reality and fiction, reflecting on music's role in human identity amid modern challenges.

"As Badlands, Catharina Jaunviksna parlays her considerable DIY talents

beneath an almost cinematic shroud of mystery." - Magnet Magazine

"...a dark and distinct sound told through warm reassuring melodies." - KEXP (NPR)

"Original outlaw electronica." - The Irish Times

"'Call to Love' brings to mind the best elements of Bristol legends Portishead

and Massive Attack." - FLOOD Magazine

"Badlands album is ispirited with something magical" - Dagens Nyheter