Ruby Tuesday | ODD BEHOLDER

Odd Beholder is the electronica/art pop project of Swiss musician Daniela Weinmann, through which she precisely and laconically chronicles the oddities, shadows, and misunderstandings of our time. Weinmann, who is a co-founder of Music Declares Emergency Switzerland, explores themes of alienation and escapism, emancipation, and the vision of a potentially better world. Her take on embracing, dark pop music confronts uncomfortable truths while simultaneously offering comfort.

On Odd Beholder’s new concept album, *Honest Work*, ten songs tell stories from the adult lives of working people in the middle and lower classes. They work night shifts at the hospital, pump breast milk in storage rooms, wonder whether they should get a prescription for Ritalin, get called into the boss’s office for wearing the wrong clothes, and take a day off to walk barefoot by a lake.

Odd Beholder is invited to major festivals such as the Great Escape Festival (UK), Eurosonic Festival (NL), and the Reeperbahn Festival (D), and tours in various lineups in China, Italy, Germany, and Switzerland. Both the Hamburg-based electropop duo Hundreds and Bodi Bill explicitly asked Odd Beholder to join them on their respective tours.