Nils Lassen Follows His Debut With ‘Rain Steam Speed’

Nils Lassen’s second album arrived on 4th September through Aenaos Records, only a few months after the Danish composer and producer’s debut, Fingerprints, came out in May. That pace might suggest restless output, but Rain Steam Speed is built around a different kind of movement: the course of a single day, from dawn to dusk.

Lassen takes the title from J.M.W. Turner’s 1844 painting, and the record unfolds as a response to a world in transition. He has described its songs as love songs in a broad sense, “addressed to people, to time, to the possibility that things can still turn.” That framing gives the 11 tracks a tender, unresolved quality rather than a resolvable narrative.

The album reconnects Lassen with the musicians from Fingerprints — drummer Tomas Ortved, fretless bassist Anders Wallin, guitarist Kitty Drue and backing vocalist Marianne van Toornburg. Tommy Steuer mastered the record. Known for his work in dream-pop duo BlackieBlueBird, Lassen keeps that affinity for texture and vocal softness present here, heard across tracks like Lost And Found (Alba), Under Your Spell and Invisible Ink.

Rain Steam Speed is available digitally and as a 12-inch vinyl limited to 300 copies.