You AreTheSunshine

The Drowners have always written songs for people trying to make sense of every little thing around them.

That message you shouldn't have sent. The question you never asked. The meaningless darkness of winter. That's where Drowners songs tend to begin.

Then they bury it under loud guitars and choruses bright enough to pass for good news.

The Drowners formed in Skellefteå in 1993. Destroyer (1996) and World Record Player (1997), both released by A West Side Fabrication, travelled further than the band did, finding listeners in Asia and South America.

In 1998 they signed with Wind-up Records in the US. Is There Something On Your Mind? came out in 2000 and reached New & Active on American modern rock radio, while songs from the album appeared on American television and in films.

Muted To A Whisper followed in 2002 and Cease To Be in 2007, both recorded and produced by the band.

Then the band went quiet. Families grew, careers outside the band took over, distance did the rest. Nobody decided it was over. They simply stopped making the next record.

The first step back was into the archive. In 2023, the band began releasing songs that had never come out. They played at home in 2024 and again in 2025, the second time in front of 3,000 people. Together, those things helped the band realise they weren't finished yet.

By the end of that year, The Drowners were writing new material. Recording began in March 2026.

"You Are The Sunshine" arrives on 16 October, the first of several releases ahead of an album in 2027. It is the first new song the band has recorded in seventeen years, and it is about the euphoria of meeting someone new and having entirely unreasonable expectations of them.