About
Mikael Johanssen is a post-punk revival musician based in Lisbon, Portugal. With a career spanning over 16 years, their sound blends industrial techno with shoegaze influences, creating a distinctive sonic palette that has been described as "deeply atmospheric and emotionally resonant."
Their latest work continues to push the boundaries of post-punk revival, incorporating elements of industrial techno and field recordings from Thessaloniki, Greece.
Discography
- Obsidian Lullaby (2022) — synthwave
- Signal Decay (2022) — neo-folk
- Crimson Theorem (2024) — shoegaze
Lyrics — Lunar Debt
The radio plays songs from someone else
The garden grows in monochrome and ash
The wires hum beneath the frozen lake
The harbour lights dissolve in kerosene
Between the lines the ink starts bleeding south
A payphone rings in rooms that don't exist
He trades his coat for silence and a key
A diesel heart pumps mercury and rain
The floorboards creak in dialects of cold
A telescope aimed at an empty chair
Rust collects where fingerprints should be
Neon signs spell out a borrowed prayer