Odd Beholder is the project of Swiss artist Daniela Weinmann, who makes electro wave and dreamily dark indie pop that documents the oddities, shadows and quiet failures of contemporary life.
Sheās drawn to the gaps between how things are supposed to work and how they actually do, and her music lives in that dissonance. Thereās no melodrama here, just careful observation wrapped in dark-wave electronics that feel both gentle and unsparing.
New single āLike A Choreā arrives ahead of her forthcoming album āHonest Workā, and it emerged from a specific moment Weinmann witnessed while working as a teacher to finance her music.
āI saw a young mother standing in the staff room after only three months of statutory maternity leave in Switzerlandā, she explains. āVisibly exhausted, she pumped breast milk in a bare back room and put it in the fridge. Despite the strain of giving birth, she had to do the same demanding job we all didā.
The track turns that observation into something tactile. Steady electronic pulses and shadowy synth textures moving with mechanical precision mirror the relentless momentum of systems built without care for the people inside them.
āI would have liked her to spend more time with her babyā, Weinmann adds. āI dedicate this song to her and everyone in the same situationā.
š§ Listen to āLike A Choreā below