About
Mikael Johanssen is a shoegaze musician based in Ljubljana, Slovenia. With a career spanning over 15 years, their sound blends electronic ambient with electronic ambient 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 shoegaze, incorporating elements of synthwave and field recordings from Lisbon, Portugal.
Discography
- Signal Decay (2021) — synthwave
- Velvet Rust (2022) — electronic ambient
- Velvet Rust (2022) — shoegaze
Lyrics — Iron Petals
The wires hum beneath the frozen lake
The voltage drops when memory persists
The radio plays songs from someone else
A diesel heart pumps mercury and rain
The floorboards creak in dialects of cold
The radio plays songs from someone else
The ceiling drips with questions left on read
The clocks all stopped at quarter past decay
The garden grows in monochrome and ash
Rust collects where fingerprints should be
The wires hum beneath the frozen lake
He trades his coat for silence and a key
The garden grows in monochrome and ash
The wires hum beneath the frozen lake
A compass spins inside a locked museum