Around this time last year, the newly established Swedish alt-soul group Sunnan were basking in the news that they’d been nominated for two Swedish GRAMMY awards following the release of their debut EP Cinema back in 2024. Although they didn’t take home the prize for “Newcomer of the Year,” that doesn’t mean the buzz didn’t stop mounting—if anything, it’s only picking up more now that the first details of their debut album Spaghetti Soul are starting to materialize. Today the group is sharing the second single from the release following “Sail (Lady in Waiting)” from earlier this year, with “Longing to Miss You” tapping into a crucial facet of the cultural foundation of their homeland: the devastating existential anguish of Ingmar Bergman.
“One year ago, we spent a week in a freezing church at Fårö writing and recording,” the band shares of the scenario that inspired the wind-swept new track, whose Morricone-esque string section helps to elucidate the “Spaghetti” half of the new album’s title. “The desolate landscape and the ambience brought us to a meek state of mind. A tune that matched the mood came about: ‘Longing to Miss You’ is the spark and melody that lit up our vision of the upcoming album. With the Swedish legendary filmmaker Ingmar Bergman buried just outside the church, the song was born in a setting deeply woven into the band’s cinematic identity. It emerged through questions of life, death, and how we all must learn to cope with the fact that loving also means losing.”
Check out the new tune below, and expect Spaghetti Soul to drop in August, by the band’s estimate.
