Fuses return on 19 May with ‘Aniline,’ the latest single from their debut album ‘Sawdust in the Transmission,’ out 26 June through Having Fun, a subsidiary of We Are Busy Bodies.

Fuses are Moa-Linn Rosenlöf from Sweden, known for Orkan and Spela Död, and Canadian guitarist Craig Fahner of Motorists. The whole thing began after a chance meeting in Gothenburg in 2024, when Fahner’s Toronto band Motorists played there. What might have stayed as a passing connection turned into daily messages, shared files and songs built across an ocean.

‘Aniline’ comes from Fahner’s memories of growing up in Alberta, where the oil business was always somewhere in the background. He remembers hearing stories about sabotage on pipelines and gas wells, and the song turns those fragments into something darker: a kind of reverse Prometheus story, where someone lights a fire that cannot be taken back.

It’s not a heavy-handed song, though. Like much of Fuses’ music, it lets the story move through melody, space and feel. Fahner had the song around for a while, but says it only felt complete once Rosenlöf added her harmony. Her drumming also gives it its shape, which he describes as moving like “a train cutting across a frozen prairie.”

The album was made out of distance, and then finished in person at Nacksving Studios in Gothenburg, a studio tied to Sweden’s 1970s prog history. The pair completed the record in a week and married the day after. That sounds almost too neat, but it fits the music: personal, worn-in, a little crooked, and still full of forward motion.

Fuses draw from 60s folk rock, classic country and the soft melancholy of songwriters who know how to leave a mark without shouting. There are echoes of The Byrds, Fairport Convention, Big Star and Jason Molina in the press notes, but the record does not feel like dress-up. It sounds like two musicians finding a shared language between Canada and Sweden, between steel guitar, close harmony and the small damaged things that keep people moving.

‘Sawdust in the Transmission’ will be released on June 26.

Headline photo: Victor Cornelius

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