By the time you notice something is burning, it has usually been burning for a while. Little Stream’s second album This House Has Been Burning For A While is about the damage that happens slowly enough to feel normal.

Based in Stockholm but rooted in the mining towns of northern Sweden, Little Stream write from a distance both geographic and emotional. The Malmfälten remain in the small habits: scanning a bar for familiar faces, never switching lines, knowing more about winter than anyone asked for. You can leave a place without the place leaving your body.

Recorded over five days at Heart of Sound in Kiruna with Björn Pettersson Thuuri, the album keeps its edges. Indie rock and alt-country shaped by sparse arrangements, crisp guitars, thick organs and a melancholic drive drawn from long stretches of E10. Highway rock for Arctic introverts, if you want to be unfair and accurate at the same time.

On focus track “Seventeen”, youth is not safely archived in the past, but still carried around: broken, unfinished, out of place in a world that seems clean and decided. Elsewhere, “Mermaid” turns projection into recognition, “Wayne Gretzky” turns heartbreak into a trade, and “Old Killers” finds the old ways of living that quietly keep taking from you.

Little Stream debuted with For You Anyway in 2024. This House Has Been Burning For A While is released June 12, 2026, in collaboration with BD Pop/DigiNorth and Stora Trumman PR.

Release: 2026-06-12

(BD Pop/DigiNorth)