Oslo-based alt-pop/electronic artist Torgny Amdam releases his highly anticipated album ‘Air Mail’, out 6th February 2026 via Telemachus Records. Accompanying the album is a new music video for latest single “I Don’t Handle This Very Well” featuring long-time collaborator Maria Due.

The deeply personal, narrative-driven record finds Amdam returning to a decisive period of his life after rediscovering letters he wrote home as a 17-year-old exchange student on the west coast of the United States in 1991. ‘Air Mail’ opens with the words: “Hi, Mom. Hope everything is well.” From there, Amdam constructs a dialogue between then and now—written from both the perspective of the teenager he once was and the adult he is today. The result is an album with a double voice: one that looks back on a life lived, and one still standing in the middle of it, still struggling.

During his time in the U.S., Amdam—then vocalist in hardcore band Onward and an active skateboarder—lived with a young couple (32 and 24 years old) who were in the midst of a deep personal crisis. The host father took his own life while Amdam was living there—a tragedy that shapes the album’s thematic core.

“I experimented with text from the letters, memories, and spoken-word fragments read straight into the microphone,” Amdam explains. “Once that process was done, I brought in guitarist Iver Armand, as well as Maria Due and my daughter April as additional vocalists. From there I built a story—or a kind of memory work—using both the voice of the seventeen-year-old I was and the one I am today.”

‘Air Mail’ follows the first three months of the stay—from cultural encounters and class divides to new social constellations, up until the tragedy that changed everything. Musically, the album moves fluidly between heavy hip-hop beats, emo-tinged moods, abstracted hardcore, reflective electric piano, intimate storytelling, and melodic folk turns—creating a sonic landscape as emotionally layered as memory itself.

The album’s visual identity blends digital and analogue, old and new. All cover artworks are based on Amdam’s own photographs from his time in the U.S., while the music videos explore an anarchistic approach to typography and lyrics across different visual formats.

The latest video for “I Don’t Handle This Very Well” weaves together personal Super 8 films from the mid-70s, VHS footage of early-90s skate culture, and Mini-DV footage from late-90s hardcore gigs featuring Amdam’s former band Amulet.

“The different time layers are brought together by the editing and moving fonts carrying lyric fragments. To me it’s a melting pot of memories, practices, styles and possible meanings, kinda like the past itself,” Amdam reflects.

Previously released singles include “Just Cry” (featuring his daughter April), “Kjæresten min” (intimate Norwegian spoken-word), and “I Don’t Handle This Very Well” (featuring Maria Due’s Auto-Tuned vocals over Iver Armand’s guitar and minimal beats).

“We’ve all lost someone, or know someone who has. And who were you when you were seventeen? Maybe the record can be an invitation for the listener to ask themselves who they were, and what they were doing,” Amdam concludes.