Following the success of 2017’s All The Way To Rio, Sweden’s Anna Ternheim has announced that her seventh studio album A Space For Lost Time will be released on September 20th.

Lead single This Is The One – co-written with Bjorn Yttling of Peter Bjorn and John fame – is available now, and is accompanied by a video directed by Elle Kunnos de Voss and shot by Osman Arslan.

It’s a delicate affair, a tender and heartfelt introspection carried on a looping drumbeat that sees Ternheim in a contemplative mood as she sings about the pain and memories that come with a lost friendship. 

And that’s a mood that carries its way right into the heart of the new album. Ternheim has described A Space For Lost Time’s sound as “American west coast meets the dark Swedish woods,” and “like a windless black lake.”

She clearly has a way with words, and This Is The One is a song that reminds us of Ternheim’s undoubted ability as a lyricist. We met the only day it ever snowed / in all the gardens snowmen waved hello / Everything changes when you believe it won’t / that dawn is the loneliest place I know is as good an opening verse as she’s ever written. 

That the track is a collaboration with Yttling bodes well too – the Scandinavian pop supremo produced Ternheim’s Swedish Grammy award-wining album Leaving On A Mayday.

The follow-up to that record – The Night Visitor – was recorded in Nashville, while All The Way To Rio saw Ternheim in the studio in – as the name suggests – Brazil.

A Space For Lost Time once again sees the singer/songwriter recording in a nomadic fashion, with sessions completed in Stockholm, New York and Los Angeles.

It’s a method that’s worked for her before. And Ternheim is hitting the road yet again in October in support of the new album with a 27-date European tour with shows in nine different countries.

Buy tickets for upcoming Anna Ternheim shows at annaternheim.com

Watch the video for This Is The One: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kkz58EvIklc

Pre-order A Space For Lost Time at annaternheim.com

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