tehran

Behind TEHRAN is the unruly Irani/Swedish artist formerly known as Nadia Tehran. TEHRAN now returns to unveil the music of their upcoming visual album: HUSQVARNA. Following their groundbreaking debut DOZAKH in 2019, and touring with Yung Lean, TEHRAN has removed themselves from the algorithmic glam and Stockholm board-room-tables. The past 5 years they have found themselves in the shadowy creeks of the Copenhagen underground. Here TEHRAN has been crafting a new artistic identity that is at once forcefully conic, enigmatic and deeply personal. Thus, in early 2024 TEHRAN announced their upcoming visual album HUSQVARNA – to be self-released by their own label Inherited Void. As much as the shortened moniker TEHRAN signals rebirth, the album HUSQVARNA also feels like a (deranged?) extension of how they always channel multitudes of raw emotion with no bullshit as the only convention.

Amidst dissonant nu-metal guitars and programmed blast-beats, TEHRAN’s voice takes center-stage as Swedish, English and Farsi unfolds in screams, growls and tender melodies. With unapologetic sincerity the lyrics deal with themes of grief, depression and addiction. Yet it is from these dark matters that transformation holds no suggestion but an exclamation: of undeniable resistance, faith and transcendence. HUSQVARNA is also a direct reference to TEHRAN’s birthplace Jönköping as a historic site of Swedish weapon-production, geopolitical ambivalence, welfare mechanics and migrant alienation. These structuring undercurrents come to the surface in the visual dimension of HUSQVARNA. Each track frames its characters side by side at Jönköping landmarks, industrial domiciles, chaotic nature and orderly institutions. All settings that define TEHRAN’s path in processing past and present urges to break free from the dull and deceiving confines of Scandinavian ‘hygge’.