Becky and the Birds

Offering an off-kilter, theatrical, often danceable fusion of indie electronic soul, Becky and the Birds is the project of Swedish singer/producer Thea Gustafsson. Her first album, Becky and the Birds, appeared in 2018. After staying busy with shorter releases, her more sonically fractured second album, Only music makes me cry now, arrived in 2024. A native of Örebro, Gustafsson grew up in a family of music lovers whose tastes ranged from jazz and classical to Swedish folk and '90s R&B. Her father was an accordionist, and she played multiple instruments from a young age, tak...