Fine announces new album Jazz Dreams | "Everything in the Shade" single + music video out now

FINE ANNOUNCES NEW ALBUM JAZZ DREAMS OUT OCTOBER 23 VIA ESCHO Listen to “Everything in the Shade”

Fine by Betty Krag  Today, Danish producer, multi-instrumentalist, and songwriter Fine announces a new album, Jazz Dreams, out October 23rd via Escho. With the announcement of the record, she releases the new single and music video for "Everything in the Shade," a warm, piano-led song that channels the architecture of classic songwriting through Fine’s uniquely dreamlike lens, drawing together echoes of five decades of modern music: "you wanna think slow you wanna act fast, feel the rain and turn the stone" “Everything in the Shade” WATCH | LISTEN Following her acclaimed 2024 debut Rocky Top Ballads, Fine expands her world on Jazz Dreams, arriving in a fluid, surreal, and expansive place. Over the past sixteen months, the album has gradually taken shape in public. Early versions of songs appeared in live performances, while demos and alternate iterations surfaced through Fine's NTS residency, alongside the release of the singles "I Could," "Run," "Moment," and "Portal." Self-produced, recorded and mixed by Fine, the album’s thirteen songs unfold as a collage of scenes, stories, and musical ideas stitched together with a logic reminiscent of a dream. Among bright flashes of genre history, the listener may recall the cut-and-paste collage imagination of Paul’s Boutique, the melodic directness of Carole King, or both sides of Scott Walker. Familiar forms are processed through different lenses and perspectives, like beloved cultural artifacts viewed through a small JPEG, pixelating into plastic. The larger narrative of Jazz Dreams emerges in fragments. Like dreams themselves, the songs move through association rather than plot, feeling instead of fact, transforming emotional impressions into something intimate. "Making records, it is not linear, Something is thrown into a room, and the bizarre is simply accepted, without ever feeling strange, you a surrender to the dream's own logic. It's cruel, but it's also freeing," explains Fine. At the center of it all is melody. Fine's intricate vocal melodies act as the connective tissue between the album's shifting scenes and moods, guiding the listener through its emotional terrain. Throughout Jazz Dreams, Fine continues to make the mysterious feel intimate and human. The songs do not search for answers or destinations. They embrace intuition, allowing memory, longing, possibility, and imagination to stir together into something new. Like a jazz improvisation, the album follows instinct wherever it leads, transforming emotional fragments into a real dream. The album artwork itself reflects this spirit. The image was originally a drawing gifted to Fine by an unknown fan in exchange for entry to a show in Paris last year: a small act of generosity transformed into a central piece of the record's world. Much like Jazz Dreams, it turns a fleeting moment into something enduring, finding meaning in chance encounters, strange connections, and the stories we choose to carry forward. Fine Jazz Dreams Escho October 23, 2026 PRE-ORDER

Track list: The thing  If you wanna come down I Could Goodbye Brain Get In Any Minute Million years Sometimes I rush Run Moment  Everything in the Shade Portal Much to say Fine Instagram | Bandcamp | Assets