Tilde Ingham (recording mononymously as Tilde) is a singer and songwriter from Gothenburg, Sweden. To date, she has released two full-length albums—2021’s Pink Moon and 2018’s Nothing Gold Can Stay—as well as a plethora of supporting singles. Now, she is back with another single, one from a series anticipating her next LP, the lovely, pastoral “At the Rainbow’s End.”
The press release that I received mentions Tilde’s fondness for artists such as Nina Simone, the Doors, Fleetwood Mac, and Etta James—fitting, as Nina Simone was the vocalist I recalled when her dulcet voice greeted me through my headphones, backed by a tactful, empathetic group of players. Tilde’s phrasings are sublime, weaving throughout the textures and orchestrations with the cool sway of a prime jazz singer, though without a hint of disaffected chic. The production is lush and deliberate, a nod to her love for the analog warmth of classic sixties and seventies vocal jazz and singer-songwriter records that she holds so dear to her heart.
“At the Rainbow’s End,” admittedly, is my point of entry to Tilde’s work, and it’s more than enough to make me curious about the rest of her catalog. It’s a beautiful piece that stands up with the best of her contemporaries—at once inviting in its delivery and with an underlying sense of melancholy, enough to draw the listener in to see beyond the sunny exterior and into a more mysterious, profound core.
Written by Jacob Simons
