Dutch artist Charlotte Wessels and her band, which performs under the name The Obsession, will release their second studio album, Mute Swan Empire, on February 5, 2027, via Napalm Records. It is a character-driven concept album in which each of the 15 tracks embodies a specific human pattern of thought and behavior that emerges at the end of the Anthropocene epoch. Wessels explores how differently people react to climate collapse, social injustice, and the collapse of familiar visions of the future.
Through these diverse characters, the former Delain vocalist paints a multifaceted portrait of humanity on her latest work, while also highlighting the various ways we confront this collapse. All of this is woven into a sonic multiverse that defies genre categorization.
The album is set to be released just in time for Charlotte Wessels’ very first headlining tour through Europe and the United Kingdom, which begins on February 4, 2027, in Sint-Niklaas, Belgium.
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