For years, if they wrote something too clean, they’d wreck it on purpose. A straightforward melody would get buried under noise, refused its natural direction, kept from taking up space. That was the method: tension over resolution, dissonance instead of ease. Their sound lived in that friction. But this time they did the opposite. “In this process with echoes of love we have followed the songs,” they say. “Emphasising the melody if the song is built around that. Taking care of and nursing each song until it felt right.”
The shift didn’t come from nowhere. Some of them had kids. Time fractured in new ways. Living in different cities meant writing alone became standard – one person finishing a song mostly solo before bringing it to the group. They wrote around 60 songs over two years, more if you count the ones from before they understood what they were making. Patterns showed up in who writes what, how those pieces fit together, how the rehearsal room reshapes things without killing the original idea.
“As you get older your perspective shift and for those of us who now have kids everything that you thought you knew about time and space changes,” they explain. “You have to change with that and you have to make a shift in how you approach things.” Being in a band means long stretches away from home. They had to decide what makes that worthwhile.
“Echoes of Love” pulls from the last few years – burnouts, births, moves, illness, therapy. They kept writing through it. During the same period, Sweden saw right-wing parties and nationalist voices gain ground, changing how people talk in spaces that used to feel neutral. “There’s a sense that boundaries have shifted, that things that once felt unthinkable are now said openly, even in neutral spaces. We can see this happening all over the world really.”
The need to say something direct grew alongside that. “We lost sense of love and care for each other.” But they also noticed resistance forming. The album tries to dig back toward something foundational.
“This album is for sure a response to this shift in energy but it’s also this feeling of your eyes being wide open and suddenly all these things become visible, things you have been taking for granted, and those things are actually slipping away from us as we speak. How we talk to each other, how we suddenly fear another, what’s okay or not okay to strive for. Sometimes it’s hard to see you had something going until it is gone.”
The first two singles were softer, more melodic than expected. “You Found Sense” leans back toward their established sound while staying inside the territory the album maps out. Asked what felt essential to keep, they push back. “Nothing is essential. It’s all about what you want to express and the way it sounds when you’re expressing it, it’s the tools and limitations you have in front of you in that particular process.”
A guitar part sounds different depending on who plays it. Four people, four interpretations. Limitations are deadlines, money, conflicting priorities, the specific gear in front of you, the reverb you actually have access to.
There’s noise everywhere. Fires in every direction. A feeling that things are sliding backward, that control over where we’re headed is slipping away. The album comes from that space — waking up confused, not sure where you are, realizing the world changed and you weren’t watching. Not gradually.
Asked how much came from ordinary moments versus turning points, they describe both. “We’ve gone through some turning points ourselves, and we’re also very affected by what’s happening in the world. But for this record we wanted to be more open, more vulnerable, and sing about what life actually feels like right now.”
Kids, work, exhaustion, health problems, routines – everyday life opened into massive emotional space. “All of that has changed how we see love and life in a very fundamental way, and that perspective is all over the album, both in the small moments and the bigger picture.”
“Echoes of Love” is out February 9, 2026.
