On "Head Up High," electro-pop singer-songwriter Oh Land turns a song of emotional support into a jubilant celebration of resilience, peppered with bells, reedy synths and repeated "high up" choruses. The Danish-born artist, whose real name is Nanna Øland Fabricius, wrote the track to encourage a friend who was going through a rough patch romantically. A year after writing the song, Fabricius had forgotten it existed. When she began working on her upcoming fourth album Earth Sick – due out November 11th – her friend, who was feeling better, reminded her about it, and she finished it up for inclusion on the record.
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