Following a string of collaborations, ranging from the unmatchable Yasuaki Shimizu to the talented Sofie Birch, Johan Carøe is set to release his debut album‘Lovesongs’, a brooding and personal album filled with big questions and bigger sounds.

Having worked as an award-winning film composer on films and documentaries, Johan Carøe once again takes a step away from the screen with ‘Lovesongs’, following last years ‘zenmetal’ EP. Throughout all seven tracks, the album offers a textured depth of synths and organic elements built on anger and melancholy.

Cited as a millenial’s ironic ode to the false premises of growing up in a western capitalist society, ‘Lovesongs’ is far from a collection of serenades as the title might suggest. Carøe began working on the album in 2016 as a catharsis for redressing the chaos he found himself in, but contrary to the introspective optics of last year’s ‘zenmetal’ EP, ‘Lovesongs’ is an empathetic response to a universal madness.

On ‘Lovesongs’, he is joined by collaborators from his film composing world – Nils Gröndahl, Maria Martine Jagd and Clara Tesch on violins, Nicole Hogstrand on viola da gamba, and Mads Kjøller-Henningsen playing flutes – processing and bending their material into a blurry wall of sound.

“I really felt the need to destroy my material”, Carøe says about the deconstructing and rebuilding recording process. Having been occupied throughout the album with questions about religion, technology and his own existence, Johan Carøe restores a last-minute hope for the future on the Vangelis-esque closing track, ‘I Love You’.