Laikka - Bleach (2023)

"We wrote 'Bleach' throughout the year 2022. A year full of new experiences and changes in our personal lives while the world often felt quite dark and hopeless. Each song on the album picks up on experiences we made in this year, from post-covid euphoria and night life to loneliness and the lingering fear of the apocalypse caused by war and the climate crisis. Stylistically, we opened up for a lot of new influences, trying to free ourselves of the concept of genre and re-imagining pop music in a way that allows for a more direct form of self-expression. The order of the songs on 'Bleach' tells a story: starting with isolation, self-pity and longing, going through optimism, love and excess and coming back to darkness, unrest and incompleteness." (Laikka)