Ane Brun has announced details of AFTER THE GREAT STORM, the first of two new albums, with the second, HOW BEAUTY HOLDS THE HAND OF SORROW, following a month later.

Released by Brun's own Balloon Ranger Recordings on October 30, 2020, these represent her first original material since 2015 and will be available in CD, LP and digital formats.

AFTER THE GREAT STORM finds Brun in questing mode, her crystal-clear, affecting voice haunted by electronic and analogue textures.

The emotionally charged 'Don't Run And Hide' and 'Honey''s laidback, soulful grooves reflect Brun's love of trip hop while acknowledging contemporary acts including SiR, Kendrick Lamar, Anderson Paak and Solange, and 'Take Hold Of Me' nods to The Knife's 'Silent Shout'.

Jennie Abrahamson and Linnea Olsson also guest on 'Crumbs', before 'We Need A Mother' closes the album in mournful but optimistic style.

"Both albums deal with the bigger questions in life," says Brun, "but in 2020 these questions have become even bigger.

Even though I wrote most of them before this whole pandemic started, I feel they all have a message that fits the situation we're in_" AFTER THE GREAT STORM is Brun's eighth album, mostly written in the Norwegian mountains during summer 2019.

It was largely recorded at Stockholm's Atlantis Studios and Studio Bruket, home to Tonbruket and the studio where musician and co-producer Martin Hederos - who also co-wrote a number of songs - and Studio Bruket's own house sound technician Anton Sundell reside.

Hederos and Sundell co-produced with Brun, and others present include Tonbruket's Johan Lindström and Dan Berglund, bassist Felisia Westberg, Per Eklund (who drums on the album and co-produced 'We Need a Mother') and Samuel Starck (who created many of the signature synth sounds and co-produced 'Take Hold of Me'), as well as five further drummers.