Isogenic explores identity and masculinity on debut album's first single 'Age'

After an EP and a series of singles, the Danish art electro-pop ensemble ISOGENIC can now announce their debut album Libertine, set for release this September. The album unites the synthetic and the analogue in an intimate, eclectic pop sound that thematically circles around especially sexual liberation and the journey toward it, from self-repression to self-recognition. Behind ISOGENIC is singer, songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, and producer Emil Lundbak, and today he and the band release the first album single with Age.

While the starting point for Libertine is personal, it also contains reflections on how structural expectations help shape sexuality—not least in relation to masculine ideals. Lundbak also explores masculinity beyond the realm of sexuality. On the fragile-yet-strong first single Age, he sings about the challenging process of forming one’s identity as a man when one's masculine role model hasn’t been a healthy example.

Lundbak states on Age:

“‘Age’ is about my own relationship with my father, and my relationship with myself as his son. My father died from alcohol abuse in 2019 after many years in various treatments and a difficult process for the whole family. Although there was a certain relief in being freed from all the drama that often surrounded him and his addiction, I was also left with a nagging fear of carrying the same dark side within myself – that I am, in fact, my father, and that it is my fate to end up the same way.”

ISOGENIC will play a handful of shows in the next months, among those at Den Grå Hal in Copenhagen and two shows in Holland and Germany, while additional shows will be announced in near future.

ISOGENIC live 2025

• 13.05.25 - Science & Cocktails, Den Grå Hal, København (DK)
• 23.05.25 - Wolbodo, Delft (NL)
• 20.08.25 - Lorretta - Hildesheim (DE)

ISOGENIC took shape at the start of 2021 and released its debut EP Diffraction in the fall of 2021, followed by a string of concerts that made it clear to all present that the band was on the right path. Over the past couple of years, Lundbak and his two bandmates, Jonas Klintstrøm and Andreas Larsen, have produced a wealth of new material, now distilled into ISOGENIC’s debut album Libertine. The album’s ten tracks include the two 2024 singles Complex Pleasures and Iris, which heralded the more direct sound that defines the record, though still keeping the band's grandiose synth sound intact.

The album title Libertine refers to a person who lives without regard for society’s sexual norms and moral principles, seeking sexual pleasure free from guilt or constraint. With this figure as a kind of idealized archetype, the album revolves at its core around liberation—liberation from shame, guilt, and in particular, sexual shame. Lundbak explains: