Einar Solberg announces debut solo album ’16’

February 14, 2023 James Weaver

EINAR SOLBERG has announced his debut solo album!

Titled 16, the upcoming album from the LEPROUS frontman is his debut solo album and is scheduled to be released in June this year, via InsideOut Music.

The upcoming solo album sees Solberg collaborating with everyone from modern prog contemporaries like BENT KNEE’s Ben Levin and AGENT FRESCO’s Toti Gudnason, to experimental cellist (and regular LEPROUS live musician) Raphael Weinroth-Browne and Magnus Børmark, best known as a member of Norwegian alt-folk troupe GÅTE. He also once again collaborates with IHSAHN and STAR OF ASH amongst many others. The record was mixed by mixed by Adam Noble [PLACEBO, BIFFY CLYRO, NOTHING BUT THIEVES] and mastered by Robin Schmidt [THE 1975, PLACEBO, THE GASLIGHT ANTHEM etc].

Speaking about the upcoming solo album, Solberg says, “it’s called 16 because that’s when the first really, really bad things started happening to me in life. From 16 to 19, there were a lot of very life-defining moments that happened to me, and that changed me. That’s when I kind of lost my innocence and I started realising that life is serious and bad shit can happen. A lot of pretty drastic things happened within those three years. But this album is not only about the bad things. It’s also about some of the career-defining moments, like the moment I started playing with the band and began to find a community to belong to. Emotionally, I’m a bit of everything, so it covers the entire emotional spectrum!”

Alongside the announcement of the debut solo album, EINAR SOLBERG has released a new music video for the first single lifted from the upcoming debut; Grotto.

Watch the official music video for Grotto here:

Also, you can view both the track list and artwork for the upcoming solo album below:

Track List:

1. 16 (feat. Raphael Weinroth-Browne)
2. Remember Me
3. A Beautiful Life
4. Where All The Twigs Broke (feat. STAR OF ASH)
5. Metacognitive (feat. Raphael Weinroth-Browne)
6. Home (feat. Ben Levin)
7. Blue Light (feat. Asger Mygind)
8. Grotto (feat. Magnus Børmark)
9. Splitting The Soul (feat. IHSAHN)
10. Over The Top
11. The Glass Is Empty (feat. Tóti Guðnason)