Ahead of the release of her debut solo album, For You, Gothenburg’s own Yukimi, best known as one quarter of the band Little Dragon, pops by the Vogue Scandinavia office to chat about going solo, working with her adolescent sons and her nod to Ingmar Bergman
For Yukimi Nagano, who’s best known as one quarter of the band Little Dragon, the decision to make a solo album came first slowly and then all at once. There was a certain “feeling in the air” within the band, which formed nearly three decades ago. Yukimi and her bandmates all wanted to make autonomous decisions and “not compromise creatively”. “I didn’t expect to want to make a solo album,” she says. “But once I embraced the that idea, it felt one hundred percent right.” She describes the thought process as going from “Hmmm, solo album?” directly to an emphatic “Yeah!”
And now here we are, with Yukimi’s gorgeous debut, For You, releasing on March 28th. “I wanted to make a deeply personal record,” says Yukimi, who’s releasing her solo music mononymously. “So I felt like I’m doing this for me, but I also felt like it’s important to share – I wanted to share it with my audience.” And thus the name For You – which also happens to be the name of Ed Westwick’s band – came about.
Photo: Fredrik Egerstrand