Norwegian singer, songwriter, producer and independent artist Ane Brun returns with Eat The Fruit, an exhilarating new collaboration with fellow Norwegian electronic pioneers Röyksopp, ahead of the release of her forthcoming album I Thought We Were The Same on 6th November through BMG.
Driven by a deep, bass-heavy pulse, Eat The Fruit sees Brun push further into an expansive electronic-pop landscape while retaining the emotional intensity and lyrical depth that have characterised her work throughout a career spanning more than two decades.
Ane Brun & Røyksopp (Ihne Pedersen)
The track uses fruit as a metaphor for movement, self-worth and the courage required to reach beyond familiar surroundings. Beneath its electronic sheen is a song about restlessness and the uncomfortable realisation that remaining in a comfortable place can sometimes mean holding yourself back.
Brun describes Eat The Fruit as a poetic companion to her 2023 track Hand In The Fire, with both songs emerging from a similar state of emotional unease. “Eat The Fruit is a poetic sister to my track Hand In The Fire, which came out in 2023. Both songs circle the same state of mind, one I sometimes find myself in, where I feel like I’m procrastinating and not embracing life or the connections I long for.”
That search for connection ultimately turns inward, with Brun reflecting on the difficulty of understanding her own motivations and desires. “Perhaps most of all, the connection to myself. It usually brings a deep restlessness, and sends me searching for the why and the how. The answers are many-layered, and it may take me a lifetime to work them out.”
The collaboration with Röyksopp brings another dimension to the track, with the Norwegian duo transforming Brun’s songwriting into something darker, more immersive and dancefloor-ready. For Brun, working with the electronic pioneers represents a long-held ambition. “It is a dream come true, and hearing my voice and lyrics melt into their signature sound is truly something special.”
She adds that she loves the way Röyksopp have shaped the track into something “dark, entrancing and liberating”, with hopes that it will find an audience everywhere from dancefloors to headphones.
Röyksopp similarly praise Brun’s distinctive creative voice, describing the collaboration as a meeting of artists built around a shared trust in the creative process. “She had an idea, she had a vision, and we were lucky enough to be invited into her domain. Ane, as an artist, is a rare creative talent with a one-of-a-kind, signature voice.”
Eat The Fruit offers a further glimpse into I Thought We Were The Same, Brun’s first collection of newly written material in six years. Written across three transformative years, the album explores trust, identity, betrayal and the ability to rebuild after relationships and assumptions have fractured.
Sonically, the record marks another significant step forward. Following the world established on After The Great Storm, Brun embraces a more expansive electronic-pop approach, allowing bigger choruses and more immediate hooks into her songwriting without sacrificing the emotional vulnerability that has long defined her music. “With this album, I wanted to experiment with how far I could take my music into a clearer and more pop sound with distinct choruses and hooks without the music losing its nerve.”
The album’s opening track, Hold Me, was co-written and produced with Norwegian electronic artist ARY and explores the uneasy space between longing and illusion. Its portrayal of two lovers caught between desire and dysfunction establishes the album’s wider examination of connection, vulnerability and emotional uncertainty.
Elsewhere, How Can I Hold Your Hand brings a feverish modern R&B influence to the project, featuring Emilie Nicolas, known for her collaborations with Björk.
At the centre of I Thought We Were The Same is a broader question about trust: what happens when people we believe we know become strangers, and how do we continue to open ourselves to others after that trust has been damaged?
For Brun, the answer lies not in abandoning vulnerability but in recognising its value. “This album became a way of understanding how deeply trust lives in us. It’s extraordinary that we continue to trust each other, knowing it can be broken at any moment. That vulnerability is one of the most beautiful things about being human.”
Ane Brun
The album therefore becomes both a personal reckoning and a wider meditation on the relationships that shape our lives. Across its songs, Brun examines the fragile structures we build with one another and the remarkable human instinct to continue choosing connection despite knowing that it can hurt.
For more than 20 years, Brun has forged a career entirely on her own terms, balancing her work as a performer and songwriter with production and the running of her own independent label. Her ability to move between intimate songwriting and increasingly ambitious electronic production has established a singular musical identity.
With Eat The Fruit, that identity continues to evolve. The collaboration with Röyksopp finds Brun stepping confidently into a darker and more expansive electronic space, while I Thought We Were The Same promises to bring together the emotional honesty, experimentation and melodic instinct that have made her one of Scandinavia’s most distinctive contemporary artists.
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