Formed in Malmö in 2013, the trio has always worked through collective instinct. Their music resists hierarchy: instruments move freely between background and foreground, melody and noise, structure and drift. Across previous releases, Hey Elbow have developed a sound that is both immediate and elusive — melodic yet fractured, emotionally direct yet full of space.

FLOCK, their fourth album, will be released in March 2026, with a premiere performance at Intonal. The music first took shape in 2022, as part of a stage work created with dancers and scenography at Inkonst. Together they explored what it means to act as an individual within a group — how identity can be held, stretched, or dissolved in relation to others.

After the premiere, Hey Elbow brought these ideas into the studio. The album emerged as a layered, open form — built from the trio’s foundations but extended through invited improvisers, who added textures, tangents, and new trajectories. This sense of movement remains central to the project: the songs are not fixed, but porous. At each performance, local musicians join the ensemble, allowing the music to shift and respond.

At Intonal, Hey Elbow will be joined by Malina Midera (synth) and Tove Bagge (viola) — not to repeat a composition, but to reassemble it in light of the moment. Here, sound moves not to finish but to open.