REIN is the Stockholm based artist, producer, songwriter and record label owner of REIN RECORDINGS.
Her music is influenced by fusing elements from body-tech, electropunk, coldwave and avant-pop mixed into a futuristic sound for the dance floor. Her music and her explosive live performances is often described as energetic and raw.
Since the release of her self-titled debut EP in 2016 she has been breaking boundaries. She got two P3 Gold nominations for ”Dance of the year” and ”New comer of the year” in 2017 from her 2nd release, ”I Don’t Get Anything But Shit From You”. Later the same year she dropped her critically acclaimed 2nd EP ”Freedoom” were she was touching subjects such as feminism, injustice and social issues.
In 2019 she started her own record label REIN RECORDINGS and the year after, released "REINCARNATED", her critically acclaimed full-length debut album. She have been touring in America two times in one year with a unique audiovisual show based upon “REINCARNATED”. She also got invited to play at the Roskilde Festival the same year. In 2021 she released a dub mix called "Reincarnated Dub Mixes Vol.1” with Boys Noize at Boys Noize Records. In 2022 she did an EP with 2 songs and 2 remixes called “Transmutation” with the French DJ and Producer Djejdjotronic released by Boys Noize Records.
In the end of 2023 she released her well-received and critically acclaimed 2nd album “God Is A Woman” co-produced by Djejdjotronic released by REIN RECORDINGS.
Press votes on God Is A Woman
“-"The art here should not go unnoticed, it deserves gallery walls."
"REIN is too talented to be stuck in a nostalgic genre. Together with the french DJ and producer Djedjotronic she writes better and better and creates forward-looking songs. The opening track "How's it gonna be?" is modern electronic pop, filled with hooks in the same class as with the best of Robyn and Madonna."
“Stockholm, Sweden is famous for consistently exporting some of pop’s most experimental artists, and its latest is a strong addition to the lineage. REIN, who in 2020 released her debut album REINCARNATED, is back with a follow-up that continues pushing forward her signature industrial, cyberpunk sound. God Is A Woman, out everywhere now, is relentless in its approach to dancefloor stompers with 10 tracks that reinforce REIN’s fascination with powerful women.”
“REIN urges to dance as there’s no tomorrow. The electropunk Rein from Bergshamra could have turned into one of the crowd. Instead, she continues to go her own way. On the sequel "God Is A Woman", she lets heavy beats meet crazy twisted synth dystopias.”
Dagens Nyheter 4/5 - Johanna Paulsson
”Joanna Reinikainen has found her own sound with the second album. “God Is A Woman” sometimes brings to mind Robyn's “Body Talk” (2010) and sometimes Kraftwerk's Electric café (1986), but still sounds like something completely new.”
Press votes on REINCARNATED
“The Swedish synthesizer artist REIN is rock hard, unpolished, obsessive, uncompromising, extreme. That is why I think she is one of today's Swedish artists who has the greatest chance of selling out sports halls with 15,000 spectators in the future. ”
Dagens Industri 4/5 - Jan Gradvall
“Swedish electro punk Rein has long been considered promising. When the debut album "Reincarnated" now finally comes, no one needs to be disappointed "
Dagens Nyheter 4/5 - Johanna Paulsson
“With elements of chopped techno, electroclash, crackling electropop, and references to modern sci-fi classics such as The Matrix and Ghost in the Shell, the album spans currents from decades of alternative electronic music. Most striking is how cool and contemporary she makes just about everything sound.”
Hymn 8/10 - Anton Lindskog
… “She also holds the flag high on the long-awaited debut album "Reincarnated", an album that fans have been asking for since the first EP was released four years ago. It is an album that both manages and renews. ”
TT Spectra 4/5
