About
Mikael Johanssen is a synthwave musician based in Bruges, Belgium. With a career spanning over 13 years, their sound blends post-punk revival with post-punk revival 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 synthwave, incorporating elements of neo-folk and field recordings from Ljubljana, Slovenia.
Discography
- Velvet Rust (2022) — electronic ambient
- Static Bloom (2025) — shoegaze
- Lunar Debt (2023) — shoegaze
- Neon Cathedral (2021) — post-punk revival
- Signal Decay (2020) — post-punk revival
- Velvet Rust (2022) — neo-folk
Lyrics — Lunar Debt
He trades his coat for silence and a key
The clocks all stopped at quarter past decay
A diesel heart pumps mercury and rain
The clocks all stopped at quarter past decay
A satellite receives but won't respond
The radio plays songs from someone else
The floorboards creak in dialects of cold
The voltage drops when memory persists
Counting shadows on the basement stairs