Loreen

Fourteen years on from the release of Heal, her groundbreaking debut album, 2026 sees multi-platinum, award-winning visionary artist Loreen return with her latest highly-anticipated release. A body of globally embraced, emotionally charged songs have firmly cemented the singer’s presence - now Wildfire set for release on 27th March 2026 via Polydor France confirms her place as an era-defining, international creative force and sonic storyteller.

This record marks a new era for Loreen, over a decade in the making. “People know me for powerhouse pop anthems,” she says, “but this album exposes the full spectrum of my artistry.

There’s sexuality and vulnerability, power and aggression; it explores the balance between yin and yang, darkness and light.”

This evolution is evident in ‘Feels Like Heaven’, the album’s lead single co-written with GRAMMY- nominated Sia and produced by Jesse Shatkin, the visionary hitmaker behind some of modern pop’s most emotionally resonant records. Replete with her signature spirituality-infused, soaring vocals and an expansive, cinematic melody, it retains the sonic language that has defined Loreen’s creative journey to date. Only, with her creative vision now shaping every aspect of production, the track fully reflects the depth of her ingenuity and outlook.

“The song is about the destructive nature of humans,” she explains, “but also our desire to be loved. We all struggle with this duality: Do I deserve to be here? Do I belong? It’s at the core of us as humans. We don’t think we are worthy of love, so we push those close to us away. We have a

way of pushing away the people closest to us, but that rupture is often where the real work begins.

Facing our own destructive patterns, naming them, and moving through them creates space for something bigger to emerge. What feels like collapse is often construction in disguise. You have to walk through the fire to find deeper meaning within yourself, and that learning settles into the body as conviction. Maybe destruction isn’t the opposite of growth, but the very thing that makes it possible, and this is the meaning of the album: to look at destruction with respect and love.” Built on a slow-burn intensity that erupts into catharsis, it speaks to the universal pleasure of

surrendering, tracing a journey from wounded resistance to open-hearted healing. Loreen’s voice moves from restrained, almost feral tension into emotional collapse and rebirth. Heaven is not a

concrete place, but a state of mind. It arrives through self-work, awareness and acceptance, it is the moment you understand that you are loved, and everything is a reflection of how you see yourself. Reclaiming her power, sitting in the front seat and taking responsibility for her life.

“Everyone I’ve ever loved I’ve hurt, I’ve hurt, I’ve hurt / I was hurting, I’d bare my teeth / in your arms, feels like heaven.”

As the refrain “surrendering in your arms” repeats, years of anger, fear and self-protection dissolve, revealing a simple truth: heaven and hell are not elsewhere, they exist within us. “When heaven is spoken about here, it isn’t a place or a belief system. It’s an inner state. Just like hell, it exists in the mind and is experienced in the present moment. Feels Like Heaven is about surrender, letting go of expectations, trusting that the universe has a divine plan for your happiness and success in life

you create freedom. And freedom is love and love is the cornerstone of everything. From that state of mind comes empathy, clarity, and deeper understanding of our lives and others. Our wellbeing is shaped by the state of our inner world. We suffer when we resist, and we heal when we surrender.

In the end, heaven and hell aren’t destinations, we create them here, through the way we feel, and act,” Loreen explains.

Loreen’s prolific back catalogue reflects a career defined by artistic conviction and cultural impact.

The only woman to win Eurovision twice proved her resonance across borders; multi-platinum songs including ‘Euphoria ’and ‘Tattoo ’which topped charts in more than 10 countries alone have become defining moments in modern music with a billion Spotify streams between them. But this is only part of her story. Since childhood, Loreen has had a unique, independent approach to music and creativity, significantly shaped by both her Scandinavian sensibility and deep, nomadic roots.

Raised in Sweden, her family heritage is in the Berber communities of the Moroccan Atlas Mountains. Bedouin traditions, rhythm, chanting, and the human voice are used to shift energy in the body and bring it back into balance. It’s an intuitive wisdom where sound isn’t just somethingyou hear, but something you feel, something that moves through you and restores you from the inside out.“ Sorrowful, emotive, opening you up to a release. There’s a certain frequency to my

music; an intensity that lays bare the heart to healing, understanding and binding.” To Loreen, music is the common language through which we all connect.

This outlook is central to both narrative and sound in Wildfire, which transcends traditional categorisation. The 13-track album is an audio odyssey, traversing genres with fluidity. Early, emotionally exposing ballads (‘Where Do We Go From Here?’) and the soul-searching, and reverb-heavy electro of ‘Can’t Pull Me Down’, and the impulsive, impassioned throbbing baseline of ‘Melt’.

Here, at the album’s heady, high-energy heart, Loreen is at her most fearless and sensual. The album’s title track is steeped in passion, longing and intimacy, while ‘Coming Close ’is climbing and

climactic, almost dreamlike in its ethereal sonics: “Silence falls, rise and release / through the chaos, I feel you coming close.” It’s about raising your vibrance and building your sensitivity, respect and love of everything around you.

The album expands in its later tracks, into a liberating crescendo of self acceptance. ‘Tattoo ’ evokes freedom and evolution, while ‘Lose That Light’, a collaboration with RnB heavyweight 6lack, explores the sensation of succumbing to fate and the universe. It’s about trust, support, and being there for somebody: "Would you use my body like a sacrifice, I swear I’ll never let you lose that light.”

In its final chapter, Wildfire emerges from its journey. Euphoric ‘Kiss the Sky ’and ‘True Love’, co-written with award-winning Icelandic composer and producer Ólafur Arnalds, one half of their fully realised band SAGES, reveal in Loreen an artist forever changed: “I’ve felt happiness. I’ve felt pain/ I’ve let jealousy lead to my heartbreak / I’ve been a saviour and I’ve been saved.”

For Loreen, Wildfire is an artistic response to the chaos that surrounds us. In her music, and with her platform, she has repeatedly elevated empathy, human dignity and acceptance. She invites listeners into a journey that embraces the full emotional spectrum: despair and confusion, anger and aggression, pain, sexual energy and release allowing each feeling to exist without judgement.

Rather than suppressing or controlling emotion, the record creates space for truth to surface. “We’ve created a society overloaded with information,” she says. “It can feel impossible, at times, to see the truth. To know fact from fiction. Who or what to trust. The album is a reaction to the intensification of energy that surrounds us. We need to connect with our intuition to find a path through.” This chaos is forcing us into a certain path, the antidote to the chaos outside of ourselves is to start developing the intuition which is the truth serum through introspection which is the same as learning how to listen inwards because all of the wisdom and truth lies within you.

In Loreen’s world, power does not come from dominance, power comes from truth.

 

27.02.2026