Spawner

Copenhagen's Spawner share debut Album ‘Air Is Getting Stranger’ out now via The Satchi Six.

Emerging from Copenhagen’s ever-curious underground, Spawner release their debut album ‘Air Is Getting Stranger’, out now via The Satchi Six. A surreal, fever-dream of a record, it captures the trio’s offbeat reflections on modern life, steeped in melancholy, humour and an instinctive need to find meaning in the ordinary.

Following a run of acclaimed singles ‘Can’t Find You’, ‘Diana/Polina’ and ‘Jeans’ which earned praise from international media outlets and rotation on KEXP and more, their debut album sees Spawner carve a sonic space entirely their own.

“When we started the band, we barely knew each other. We became friends in the process of writing the album and found each other in a common feeling of being overwhelmed by the world around us,”

the band explain.

“In working with heavy themes, we used our collective sense of humour as a tool to communicate them. We laughed a lot while writing the songs, describing everyday actions, such as getting lost at a public service, or learning how to tie a tie / take a nap with jeans on. We are very excited about finally sharing this piece of work that feels very true to us as a band and as friends.”

From the feverish pulse of ‘Can’t Find You’ to the bleary humour of ‘Jeans’, and the aching resolve of ‘How To Tie A Tie’, the album finds poetry in the mundane and meaning in the mess. Each song feels like a small act of survival and a reminder that art can still hold space for confusion, irony, and hope.

Like their name suggests, Spawner thrive on reinvention. Across eight tracks, ‘Air Is Getting Stranger’ drifts between scuzzy guitars, dream-pop luminosity and grunge-like grit, blurring the boundaries between the beautiful and the unsettling. It’s the sound of a band dissecting the static of the modern world, finding unexpected beauty in its absurdities.

The title feels fitting. It’s a melodic study of quiet disconnection, and a reminder that humour and creativity can still bloom amid the unease.

Formed almost by accident at Copenhagen’s revered Rhythmic Music Conservatory, Johan Danø Hoffmann, Jonas Engell Mortensen, and Ella Moreno Risell came together for a class project and discovered an instant chemistry. It’s a collision of three distinct creative worlds. Their shared fascination with the uncanny and the ironic became the foundation of Spawner: a project that reimagines rock through a wry, cinematic lens.

The result is an album that feels as unsettling as it is inviting. One that lingers long after the final note.

“There’s a feeling of being disconnected, Like there’s a distance between yourself and your surroundings.” 

Ella explains.

Yet, rather than dwell in that distance, Spawner find connection in it, in the strange, beautiful act of creating something together.

‘Air Is Getting Stranger’ captures that duality perfectly: a band exploring uncertainty with curiosity, humour and heart.

Photo by Fanny-Alba Bang Jönsson & Mathilde Ferro Fransen