Malmö-based twin sisters Inez and Ella Johansson, better known as 7ebra, have announced their highly anticipated sophomore album, How To Land a Plane, arriving September 25th via PNKSLM Recordings. Moving away from the insular, shrouded world of their 2023 debut Bird Hour, the announcement is spearheaded by the extroverted new single “Dinner and a Movie.” The track brilliantly pairs a tense, minimal guitar groove with a soaring chorus that masks the dark, familiar shame of a post-party spiral, setting the stage for a massive UK and European headline tour this autumn.

The lead single, “Dinner and a Movie,” serves as an arresting introduction to the duo’s expanded sonic ambition. The track masterfully builds from a sparse, atmospheric guitar line reminiscent of The xx into a taut, infectious indie-pop anthem. While lines like “I’m seeing stars everywhere” initially mimic romantic euphoria, they actually mask a much bleaker reality. Lyrically, the Johansson sisters confront the distinct wave of regret, exhaustion, and financial drain that hits when you repeatedly postpone going home, capturing what they bluntly describe as those inevitable “hell hole feelings” that linger long after the music stops.

This reckoning with sore heads and vulnerability acts as a perfect blueprint for How To Land a Plane. Across the new record, 7ebra trade the bedroom-pop boundaries of their past work for an emotionally open, bolder sound that tackles the specific anxieties, insecurities, and identity crises of your late twenties. The album’s title reflects that universal, mid-twenties panic, the overwhelming sensation that you are trying to navigate a complex aircraft with absolutely no instruction manual, frantically gripping the controls in the desperate hope that you don’t crash the entire thing.

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