Swedish post-rock band Barrens released new studio album »Corpse Lights«; out now via Pelagic Records!

Malmö, Sweden based post-rock band Barrens stream their second studio album, »Corpse Lights«, which was just released on September 12th, 2025 via Pelagic Records.

Tracklist:
01. Memory Eraser
02. The Derelict
03. Sorrowed
04. Periastron
05. Apastron
06. No Light
07. Collapsar
08. Remnants
09. A Nothing Expands

Courtesy of Pelagic Records:

»Corpse Lights«, Barrens’ sophomore album, is somehow deeper, richer and headier; imbued with an alluring compositional patience that serves as unspoken testament to the combined creativity of the trio in their element, as something so much greater than the sum of its parts. Recorded and produced by Kristofer Jönson, who also helmed Penumbra, and mixed and mastered once again by Cult Of Luna’s Magnus Lindberg, shimmering synthesizers and sprawling guitars lead the charge propelled by exhilarating drums and percussion but »Corpse Lights« also finds Barrens using space, silence and atmosphere as another instrument if not as another band member entirely.

“Corpse Lights” is the name given to the folk belief that small coloured lights often appear near the home of someone about to die, leading them along the path to their eventual resting place. Often considered to be evidence of the soul leaving the body, the concept of corpse lights embodies Barrens’ approach to creating music as a cathartic release; not just writing music because they want to but because they have to. Their writing process is one of joy, light and release as much as it is dark, heavy and tense.

In their time, Barrens have supported the legendary Mogwai, God Is An Astronaut, signed with the famed Pelagic Records and opening ArcTanGent’s main stage for the 2023 edition.

Download / stream / order HERE.

Bojan Bidovc // music enthusiast, promoter, misanthrop and sometimes a journalist as well