LOVE JOSIEโs debut single, โAll Roads Lead to Home,โ is a cinematic pilgrimage stitched together with ancestral echoes, modern textures, and a quietly defiant spirit. Released on April 11, 2025, the track is a sweeping folk-pop ballad rooted in Swedish folklore and carried by a voice that moves like wind through pine. Itโs one of those songs that immediately transports you, setting you down in a place that feels older than memory, yet intimately your own.
The track opens with a haunting herding call, kulning, before falling into a misty landscape of echoing vocals, ethereal pads, and the earthy scrape of a keyed fiddle. Guitar chords rustle like fallen leaves, while LOVE JOSIEโs voice begins low and heavy, rising with the melody as if pulled upward by instinct. By the time she reaches the chant-like chorusโโMy heart is the forgiver, beating through the noise, right and wrong / All roads lead to homeโโthe soundscape feels both grounded and cosmic, as though tradition and evolution are shaking hands in real time.
Josie, born Josefin Strand, breathes new life into the Nordic folk tradition with cinematic ambition. Inspired by Dalarnaโs ancient music, American 1970s folk, and even video game scores, the track blends reverence and reinvention. The keyed fiddle, played by Emelie Wadlken, brings a raw, spiritual lilt to the arrangement, while producer Asher B Condit builds out the world with layers of rumbling percussion and delicate panning. The chorus glows with harmonies that feel like a choir in the trees.
The accompanying music video, inspired by a John Bauer fairytale, transforms this sonic journey into a visual myth of rebirth and self-discovery. As LOVE JOSIE stumbles, climbs, and dances her way toward โhome,โ she reminds us that home is a reclamation of self. Check out this music video on YouTube.
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Photo credits: Attikus Ebenhack
Review by: Naomi Joan