ODD BEHOLDER

Unveils New Single "Like A Chore" & Announces Fourth Album 'Honest Work' - A Concept Album About Modern Working Lives

Swiss Artist Explores Parenthood, Labour & Survival in the Modern World

New Single Out 16th January 2026 | Second Single "Internet Famous" Out 27th February 2026 | Album Out 22nd May 2026 via Sinnbus Records

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ZURICH, SWITZERLAND – Swiss electro wave/indie pop artist Odd Beholder (Daniela Weinmann) announces her fourth album 'Honest Work' and releases new single "Like A Chore" on 16th January 2026 via Sinnbus Records, followed by second single "Internet Famous" on 27th February 2026.

Following 2023's introspective 'Feel Better', which explored teenage struggles and intergenerational relationships, 'Honest Work' shifts focus to the adult lives of working people navigating systems that reduce them to anonymous data points, employees, and consumers. Across ten songs, Weinmann documents night shifts in hospitals, breast milk pumped in storage rooms, Ritalin prescriptions, workplace dress codes, and stolen moments of barefoot lake walks.

"The idea for 'Like A Chore' came to me when I was still working as a teacher to finance my music," Weinmann explains. "I saw a young mother standing in the staff room after only three months of statutory maternity leave in Switzerland. Visibly exhausted, she pumped breast milk in a bare back room and put it in the fridge. Despite the strain of giving birth, she had to do the same demanding job we all did. I would have liked her to spend more time with her baby. I dedicate this song to her and everyone in the same situation."

The flowing electronica track follows a parent trying to be present for their child whilst managing work obligations. "Can't tell you what it's for / I fear that you feel like a chore," the lyrics ponder. The perspective shifts: "You wonder why you're quick to lose your temper / When you are overwhelmed / And as a child, you just can't quite remember / If you were ever held." The song questions whether adults feel overwhelmed because they themselves experienced little patience as children, refusing to offer easy answers about work-life balance.

Lyrically, 'Honest Work' embraces what Weinmann calls "petty-bourgeois surrealism"—desperate prayers woven through corporate HR language: "Doctor, I think that I've got a disease" (Focus Disease), "Taking a day off… don't even remember my own name" (Remind Me), "I serenade on company time" (Lean Dreams). The album captures the dull ache of a generation whose emotional lives are filtered through online shopping carts and employment systems.

Odd Beholder's previous work includes debut album 'All Reality Is Virtual' (exploring digitalization and isolation), 'Sunny Bay' (examining humanity's relationship with nature), and collaborative EP 'Lost in Communication' (2023) with Long Tall Jefferson. Weinmann's music video for "Landscape Escape" won the jury prize at the 2017 Best Swiss Video Clip Awards.

The artist has performed at The Great Escape (UK), Eurosonic (NL), Reeperbahn Festival (DE), and toured China, Italy, Germany, and Switzerland. Weinmann co-founded Music Declares Emergency Switzerland, advocating for climate action within the music industry, and has hosted panels examining the "broligarchy" and independent music's place within corporate tech structures.

With her precise, laconic documentation of modern oddities and misunderstandings, Odd Beholder confronts uncomfortable truths whilst offering consolation through dark, embracing pop music.

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