Stephanie Meincke delivers a compelling and emotional debut with the powerful "Don't Wanna Let Go"

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15 Mar

The seven organic pop songs on the new EP from the Danish singer-songwriter revolve around being a curious person in your twenty-somethings while trying to navigate the attention-distracted reality we all live in.

‘Never Not Thinking’ is out now along with the new single, ‘Full-Time Driver’.

LISTEN TO 'FULL-TIME DRIVER' HERE

LISTEN TO THE EP 'NEVER NOT THINKING' HERE

For many young people, it doesn’t take much to go from daydreams to panic. The reality of 2025 has changed drastically compared to previous generations – before smartphones, endless doomscrolling, social media with cute dog videos and influencers, Netflix marathons, and long before intelligent digital algorithms were ready to steal a little piece of our time and attention.

We’re bombarded with content, trying to engage and take a stance on everything, while the snowball of chaos just keeps growing and filling our heads. But are we even taking a stance on anything at all?

“In my opinion, we’re in an epidemic of overthinking. I’m far from the only one who gets overwhelmed by small things that get blown up to become unmanageably big. Our brains are working overtime 24/7, and I wrote these songs to face the music – as a humble attempt to deal with my own mental clutter, the news stream, and a hardcore reality that I feel we as a society are far too passive and uncritical about.”

That’s how Stephanie Meincke describes ‘Never Not Thinking’. The EP debut introduces a new voice in Nordic music, freely unfolding across folk, country, soul, and indie – genres that embody the authenticity the songwriter seeks in her lyrics, making Stephanie Meincke’s music an instant relief for a worn-out mind.

She herself is anything but worn out; a talented, reckless dreamer on a somewhat different journey of her own, addressed on the EP’s lead single, ‘Full-Time Driver’.

“Sometimes I feel like a ghost driver, driving in circles on a racetrack while everyone I know and care about is going in the opposite direction, having kids, and getting married. If you’re a reckless dreamer like me, your path is inevitably full of bumps, and sometimes it seems like you’re going nowhere. But the truth is, your route constantly changes and shows new ways. That’s what ‘Full-Time Driver’ is a reminder of - the small but significant goals, experiences, and moments that inspire us to do so much more.”

‘Never Not Thinking’ is Stephanie Meincke’s EP debut and will be released worldwide through the independent label Unmuted on March 14.