Gearing up for the release of her third album, Siv Jackobsen has dropped a new single, ‘Romain’s Place’. It’s a delicate tune that allows her voice to sit above a mellow accompaniment. The gentle acoustic strumming of the track’s opening moments is quickly overshadowed by marching snare drum patterns, which are in turn joined by subtle, textured trumpets that lie in the distance. The lyrical inspiration behind the track requires explanation from Siv Jakobsen herself: “Right before the pandemic hit, I was on a small tour and found myself back in a city I used to call home. I hadn’t been back since I left it (and the relationship I had there) behind a good few years ago. I felt quite shocked with how my body and mind reacted to being back, and realised quickly that I had some emotional unpacking to do. I was staying with my friend Romain at the time, and for me my time in his apartment encapsulates this realisation and the start of me dealing with these ghosts from my past that had laid dormant for a while. I was so overwhelmed at the time that it felt as if I was going crazy. I really did feel haunted, as if I had jumped into a time-machine and was somehow back in the past.” Her album, Gardening, drops on January 20th, 2022. It’s filled with twelve phenomenal tracks that you can hear live around Europe over the next few months. -Dan Peeke.