Loney Dear announces new self-titled album and shares lead single "Sum"

Loney Dear is the follow up to 2011's Hall Music, and will be Emil Svanängen's first release on Peter Gabriel's Real World Rcords.

"There is a certain new blackness in the music," Svanängen says. "I have learned to make my inner darkness more visible to people because I don't want to seem lighter than I am. There have been terrible situations, I have found dark paths inside, I have learned about myself, I have discovered music, my artistry, my pros and cons. I must learn how to live without wanting to give up."

Last year we spoke to Svanängen about the LP (he also shared new single "Humbug", but that has since been un-shared in preparation for its inclusion on the LP). Last year's "Hulls" makes the final cut, but fellow 2016er "December Lillies" is absent.

"I would say it's a big brother to Loney Noir dressed like Nick Cave, smoking Chinese cigarettes and polishing expensive crystals, stolen from a rich CEO’s home," says the Swedish artist. "I've tried to move towards the analogy of the Italian kitchen, with fewer ingredients, but it's moved a bit to the brown mess at the end. This is gonna be a classic, with timeless electronic arrangements and decent songwriting. As usual, the songs are written whilst being arranged and performed, so it's not traditional songwriting but with a mental foot in how the music will feel on stage. The concert is the new album - it's almost insane how much attention you get from an audience in a room..."

Tracklist:

1. Pun
2. Humbug
3. Hulls
4. Sum
5. Lilies
6. Little Jacket
7. Isn't It You
8. Dark Light
9. Harbours / Harbors
10. There Are Several Alberts Here