Trentemøller is due on 13 November on his own label, In My Room. Live dates follow next year. Streaming and pre-order options are available.
The single follows ‘Terrified’, featuring Jonas Bjerre of Mew, and ‘Swerve’, featuring Vienna-based singer Sakura. The press release describes the new track as a gothy torch song built from layers of industrial-sized fuzz.
Wagner describes the song as “a depiction of pure love slowly winding down and how it affects you in those moments where you realise you’re being “replaced.””
Trentemøller says the collaboration goes back to an earlier track. “Ever since Sune sang on my track “Deceive,” we’d been talking about doing another song together. This time I had an instrumental that felt right for his voice, so I sent it over. He loved it, and pretty quickly came back with that great vocal that’s unmistakably Sune / The Raveonettes.”
He adds: “With “Your Love Walks Alone” I feel like he hit the mood of the music perfectly. What I love is how the vocal melody is kind of ‘happy’ in a way, when the lyrics are actually pretty dark. It makes for a good contrast against the more brooding, insistent sound underneath.”
The album
Trentemøller has 10 songs and is the first of his albums to include vocals on every track. The guests are Sakura, German-British singer Anika, Jonas Bjerre of Mew, Sune Rose Wagner of The Raveonettes, Colorado-originating “heaven metal” artist Midwife (aka Madeleine Johnston), New Mexico duo Tan Cologne and Danish singer-songwriter Emma Acs. Acs is now the singer in his live band.
He made the album by hand himself. “The noisy got noisier, the dreamy got dreamier, the melodic got even more melodic. I was ruthless this time. Okay, kill your darlings! If a track didn’t give me a feeling of freedom, wanderlust, sorrow, love or that pure ‘I don’t give a fuck’ feeling… It was gone,” he says.
The vocalists never met him in the studio, and everything was exchanged remotely. “I knew early on exactly who I wanted singing on these songs, people I deeply respect and could already hear in my music, friends and a few I’d never worked with before. We never met in the studio; everything was exchanged remotely. That suited me perfectly. I’m pretty shy, to be honest, and it gave the vocalists the privacy to really open up,” he says. Most of the vocals were recorded at home.
He also says: “I’ve just never been much good at being told what to do. I don’t really follow trends or think in algorithms, that whole calculated side of the music industry is really not a pretty sight.”
On playing the songs live, he says: “Now I can’t wait to play these songs live with my band. For the first time ever, I’m gonna play the whole album, start to end. Every single song!”
Live dates
- 27 February – Berlin, DE – Huxleys Neue Welt
- 1 March – Munich, DE – Kesselhaus
- 2 March – Bern, CH – Bierhübeli
- 3 March – Paris, FR – La Cigale
- 5 March – Brussels, BE – Ancienne Belgique
- 6 March – Brussels, BE – Ancienne Belgique
- 7 March – Luxembourg, LU – den Atelier
- 9 March – Amsterdam, NL – Paradiso
- 10 March – Maastricht, NL – Muziekgieterij
- 11 March – London, UK – Electric Ballroom
- 13 March – Cologne, DE – Carlswerk Victoria
- 17 March – Oslo, NO – Rockefeller Music Hall
- 18 March – Gothenburg, SE – Pustervik
- 19 March – Stockholm, SE – Fållan
- 20 March – Copenhagen, DK – Store VEGA
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