Juni Habel has shared the video for “Stand So Still,” the latest single from her upcoming third album, Evergreen In Your Mind, due April 10th via Basin Rock. The video was shot by Malin Longva at Verdens Ende, Norway — a fittingly elemental backdrop for a song that refuses to settle on easy answers.
Stand So Still arrives following the announcement of Evergreen In Your Mind and its title track, offering another glimpse into the considered, unhurried world Habel has built across 11 new recordings. Where the title track found her hiding in the colourless snow of the forest, navigating the tension between the pull of nature and the demands of modernity, Stand So Still opens like something recovered from another era entirely — a folk song that feels both ancient and entirely present. Then it quietly shifts. Habel’s voice begins to wind around itself, and the album’s gently idiosyncratic production drifts in, taking the song somewhere less defined.
That ambiguity is very much the point. As Habel puts it: “I don’t think this song ever decided whether standing still is good or bad. And I don’t know myself!” It’s a disarming admission, and it captures something essential about the album’s central preoccupations — the tension between stillness and momentum, connection and resistance, the desire to be present in the world and the difficulty of knowing exactly how.
Evergreen In Your Mind was recorded with co-producer Stian Skaaden and follows the breakthrough success of 2023’s Carvings (reviewed here). It draws on the physical world around Habel — home recordings, a school piano, found percussion — while also inhabiting, by her own account, something closer to a dream. Fans of Myriam Gendron, Haley Heynderickx, and early Julie Byrne will find plenty to love here.
Evergreen In Your Mind is released April 10th via Basin Rock.
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