Molly Nilsson is back with a brand-new single, and it’s anything but a nightmare. “Swedish Nightmare,” the second taste of her forthcoming album Amateur, is a shimmering, romantic sigh of a track that wrestles with the most bittersweet fear of all: the idea of summer slipping away without enough love to remember it by. Her solution? As she sings with disarming simplicity: “C’mon babe, let’s go to Gothenburg sometime.” Sold.
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True to form, Nilsson directed the video herself, adding another personal layer to a project that already feels intimate and wide-open at once. Amateur will be already her twelfth studio album, and it’s shaping up to be one of her most heartfelt collections yet. The project was written instinctively, recorded at home, and bursting with the kind of sincerity that’s made her a singular voice for almost two decades.
Across its 13 tracks, Amateur is described as “a jubilee for losers,” a collection that embraces mistakes, celebrates curiosity, and offers companionship outside the grind of the rat race. Nilsson shifts between anthemic and deeply personal, always with her trademark clarity and defenceless honesty. Where first single “How Much Is The World” urged us to rethink value in a system that thrives on squeezing us dry, “Swedish Nightmare” tilts toward romance and longing—reminding us that life’s biggest dreams are always tied up in its tenderest fears.
Nilsson has called Amateur a celebration of life lived truthfully, mistakes and all. And really, isn’t that the kind of celebration we could all use right now?
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