Named as one of IMPALA’s ‘100 Artists To Watch in Europe’ for 2025, Odin (full name Odin Staveland) is a Norwegian Grammy-winning artist who works across music, theatre and film. He creates raw, genre-bending solo work, produces for others and also performs with the iconic Norwegian band Vamp.
The video for his song ‘Bullet Dance’ (included on the 2023 album ‘Hoohahs and Cat Calls’) competed at Cannes in 2024, a year in which Odin not only wrote, directed and performed in the theatre play ‘Mars’, but also produced and performed songs on the reality TV show ‘Hver gang vi møtes’ in his homeland.
His new single, ‘Kiss Kiss Hello’, is the first song to be issued from an album he has been working on throughout 2025. Entitled ‘NUDES’, Odin summarises it as “an album with its pants down and a cigarette in its mouth.” He recalls that “on New Year’s Eve, I watched my friends post recaps of their year. I made my own list – the joy, the failures, the reality TV appearance, the theatre production I created, the midnight emails, the tours, the pregnancy, the marriage, the kids, the doomscrolling through Gaza, Ukraine, the West and the rest. The public. The private. I didn’t post it. Instead, I turned it into an album. ‘NUDES’ is about what happened and what stayed behind, written in the year before the year before the midlife crisis.”
A video for ‘Kiss Kiss Hello’ will be issued in October, followed by further singles from ‘NUDES’ before the full album lands in mid-2026. It promises to be an intriguing ride.
ODIN | previous reviews
“Bold and dynamic alt-pop gems”
MYSTIC SONS (UK)
“A truly unique and raw musical experience on the verge of the avant-garde”
MORGENBLADET (Norway)
“It’s a bit like Tom Waits and Kendrick Lamar trying to make a record at the same time”
THE SOUND CAFE (Canada)
KISS KISS HELLO
new single
out 12.09.25
(TBC Records)
KISS KISS HELLO
Odin Staveland – vocals, synthesisers, drums, piano
Aksel Ø Røed – saxophone
Kjetil Dalland – bass
Written and produced by Odin Staveland
Mixed and mastered by Kjetil Ulland
