Revelations of Divine Love
Susanne Sundfør announces new album Revelations Of Divine Love, to be released 2nd October 2026 on Bella Union.
Since releasing her last studio album ‘blómi’ in 2023, Sundfør has become a mother of two, left city life behind to settle in the Norwegian countryside, and entered what she describes as the most transformative period of her life. It was a season marked by stillness, reflection and a different understanding of love, one that ultimately led her to the writings of the 14th-century English mystic Julian of Norwich.
The result is Revelations of Divine Love, Sundfør’s eighth album and one of the boldest statements of an already boundary-defying career. Recorded live in a Norwegian church using only pipe organ and voice, the album strips away everything non-essential. Across thirteen intimate pieces, including spoken word passages and organ instrumentals, Sundfør gives musical life to the words of Julian of Norwich, drawing exclusively from Grace Warrack’s landmark 1901 translation of Revelations of Divine Love, the first known book written in English by a woman.
For more than two decades, Susanne Sundfør has consistently reinvented herself. Since emerging as one of Scandinavia’s most singular musical voices she has built a career defined by fearless transformation, moving effortlessly between electronic pop, orchestral grandeur, experimental composition and intimate songwriting. Her albums, including breakthrough ‘The Silicone Veil’ (featuring the incredible ‘White Foxes’), ‘Ten Love Songs’ and ‘Music for People In Trouble’, have garnered critical acclaim throughout the world, topped the Norwegian charts, earned multiple Norwegian Grammy Awards, and established her as an artist equally at home collaborating with the likes of Röyksopp or M83, as she is writing deeply personal records entirely her own.
Each release has opened the door to a new musical world while remaining unmistakably Susanne Sundfør. But nothing has shaped her artistic life as profoundly as the years leading to Revelations of Divine Love.
Listen to I It Am from the forthcoming album
Sundfør first encountered Julian while reading about medieval women whose voices had been erased from history. She found herself captivated not only by Julian’s extraordinary story but by the radical tenderness of her theology. The album is hymnal, hypnotic and deeply human. While it echoes classical music, jazz and the traditions of Scandinavian sacred music, it ultimately exists in a space entirely its own, an immersive, spellbinding work that transforms medieval mysticism into something startlingly contemporary.
Kit Downes – a Mercury Prize nominee and BBC Jazz Award winner – co-composed the score with Sundfør and selected the Norwegian church whose organ became the album’s second voice. Together they embraced a philosophy of immediacy: close-miked vocals, mostly single takes and performances that privileged presence over perfection. The album unfolds like a meditation.
“Traditionally, vocals accompanied by an organ are powerful and loud,” says Sundfør. “I wanted the opposite—soft, whispered, as understated as possible. It’s about authenticity, not perfection. It had to be playful and whimsical.”
Following years largely spent away from international touring while raising her family, Revelations of Divine Love marks both a return and a new beginning. It is Susanne Sundfør at her most stripped-back, most vulnerable and perhaps most radical: an artist who has spent twenty years refusing to repeat herself, and who now arrives at her quietest, most intimate work yet.
By looking beyond herself, she has created an album that feels timeless, offering an ancient meditation on love as an answer to the questions of modern life.
Revelations Of Divine Love Tracklisting:
1. A Revelation of Love
2. I It Am
3. For He Standeth All Alone
4. Hazelnut
5. What Are We
6. One High Love
7. Vision
8. Overcome
9. The Blessed Wounds
10. Seven Nights Dead
11. Charity
12. All Shall Be Well
13. Love Was Our Lord’s Meaning
Revelations of Divine Love will be available to order in physical formats soon.
Autumn Bluegrass Tour of Norway
This autumn, Susanne Sundfør invites audiences into a new musical landscape. With songs from across her career—newly dressed in tones of bluegrass and country—she embarks on an extensive fall tour together with some of the country’s leading musicians.
“I’m excited to share the stage with some of Norway’s best musicians this summer and fall, where we’ll be giving my music a new country outfit. There will be good old-fashioned bluegrass, but also touches of country, strongly inspired by icons like Dolly Parton and Alison Krauss.” – Susanne Sundfør.
For more than two decades, Susanne Sundfør has solidified her position as one of Norway’s most acclaimed and artistically uncompromising performers. Her career has been marked by a rare willingness to challenge her own expression, explore new musical directions, and continually find new pathways into her own universe of songs.
On this tour, audiences will experience exactly that. Beloved and familiar songs gain new life through fresh harmonies, acoustic strings, and a musical kinship with American folk and country traditions. For Sundfør’s many fans, this will be a unique opportunity to rediscover the songs from an artist who still refuses to stand still.
Bluegrass Tour November 2026 Dates
Nov 5 – Havet, Trondheim
Nov 6 – Havet, Trondheim
Nov 7 – Storstuggu, Røros
Nov 8 – Terminalen, Ålesund
Nov 10 – Asker Kulturhus, Asker
Nov 10 – Asker Kulturhus, Asker Extra Show
Nov 12 – Hamar Kulturhus, Hamar
Nov 13 – Maskinhallen, Lørenskog
Nov 14 – Parkbiografen, Skien
Nov 18 – Sentrum Scene, Oslo
Nov 19 – Sentrum Scene, Oslo
Nov 20 – Union Scene, Drammen
Nov 21 – Kaldnes Me, Tønsberg
Nov 25 – USF Verftet, Bergen
Nov 26 – USF Verftet, Bergen
Nov 27 – Byscenen Haugesund, Haugesund
Nov 28 – Fiskepiren, Stavanger