Danish electronic auteur Trentemøller is back with the second taste of his upcoming, self-titled eighth studio album — and it’s a gut-punch. Swerve arrives with a stunning companion music video, serving as the record’s opening track and its mission statement all at once.
Where the first single hinted at what’s coming, Swerve kicks the door down. It’s the album’s opener, and it crashes in on searing walls of sound that set a disorientating tone carried through the rest of the record.
The track was built with Hong Kong-born, Vienna-based vocalist Sakura, whose presence pulls you straight into the gut-feeling immediacy Trentemøller is known for — a wave-like guitar glide wedded to tsunami-sized swells of multi-layered noise.
Straight from the source, Trentemøller breaks down how it all came together:
“‘Swerve’ was the first song I wrote for the record,” says Trentemøller. “I had the vocal melody in my head pretty quickly, and the whole thing, chords and guitar riff, came to me fast. I wanted it to be brutal and beautiful at the same time, to almost shock the listener when the guitars and everything kick in during the first bars. Sakura’s vocal fits so well it almost becomes an instrument in itself. I knew instinctively it should open the record, since I think it’s pretty defining for the album’s sound.”
Tracklist
01. Swerve
02. Terrified
03. Visceral
04. Johnny Boy
05. Halved
06. Your Love Walks Alone
07. To Mist
08. Coyote
09. Crash
10. White Hallways
The self-titled LP — Trentemøller’s eighth — drops November 13 via In My Room. Pre-order: https://trentemoller.lnk.to/trentemoller
2027 Tour Dates
Feb 27 — Berlin, Germany · Huxleys Neue Welt
Mar 01 — München, Germany · Kesselhaus
Mar 02 — Bern, Switzerland · Bierhübeli
Mar 03 — Paris, France · La Cigale
Mar 05 — Brussel, Belgium · Ancienne Belgique
Mar 06 — Brussel, Belgium · Ancienne Belgique
Mar 07 — Luxembourg · den Atelier
Mar 09 — Amsterdam, Netherlands · Paradiso
Mar 11 — London, United Kingdom · Electric Ballroom
Mar 17 — Oslo, Norway · Rockefeller
Mar 18 — Göteborg, Sweden · Pustervik
Mar 19 — Johanneshov, Sweden · Slaktkyrkan
Mar 20 — København, Denmark · Vega
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