Nina Winder-Lind's 'Wild Love' Is a Feminist Punk Debut That Sings With Real Bite
Nina Winder-Lind spent years fronting Brighton art-punk band The New Eves before striking out on her own with Wild Love, her debut solo full-length for Transgressive Records. A classically trained cellist originally from Stockholm, she brings a strange, welcome physicality to eleven songs that wear their influences — The Pastels, The Raincoats, the C86 compilation, the K Records catalog, old girl-group 45s — right on their sleeve without ever sounding like homework. This is a record about being alive in your body, and it never lets you forget it.
The Sonic Breakdown
The Production & Mix
Producer Jack Ogborne (Bingo Fury, The Cindys) tracked the album across two Bristol studios — one beneath the Louisiana venue, one in a converted church — and the setting shows. The Low-End: guitars and bass sit thick and unfussy, giving Winder-Lind’s voice room to do the damage. The Spatial Dynamics: the mid-album stretch leans deliberately loose, almost amateurish by design, letting the songs breathe instead of tightening into radio-ready shapes — a choice that trades sheen for sincerity every time.
Standout Performance
Winder-Lind’s vocal is the whole show — raw and physically urgent, less concerned with pitch-perfect delivery than with getting the feeling across intact. It’s a performance built on nerve, not polish, and it’s electric because of it.
Track Highlights
⚡ “Headfirst” nails early rock ‘n’ roll simplicity with a jubilant, careening guitar solo that sounds like it was recorded in one take because it probably was.
🌈 “Girls” is the record’s clearest thesis — a declarative, feminist stomp that sits alongside the doo-wop piano of “Love You So” to show just how wide this debut’s reach really is.
Eleven songs, zero pretense, and a debut that announces a genuinely vital new solo voice. Certified.