Susanne Sundfør has announced her seventh studio album, ‘Revelations Of Divine Love’, and released its first single, the ethereal ‘I It Am’. Due on 2 October via Bella Union, the record marks a highly stripped-back project centred on love, motherhood and spiritual writing.

The album was recorded live in a Norwegian church with only Sundfør’s voice and a pipe organ, alongside BBC Jazz Award winner Kit Downes. Its lyrics draw on Grace Warrack’s 1901 translation of Julian of Norwich’s 14th-century ‘Revelations of Divine Love’, widely regarded as the first known book written in English by a woman; Sundfør said she sought a soft, whispered and playful sound rather than traditional organ-led grandeur.