We have done amazing things together, but this is like we made a baby together. And now we have the best two years together. First of all, we missed each other, then we missed the fans and we wanted to hang out together. That was the first thing that we spoke about. Sebastian Ingrosso of Swedish House Mafia Tells Apple Music How Missing Each Other and Their Fans Brought Them Back Together… So this whole time, the time has really helped us to have gotten where we are with the sounds and with the songs and to a place where we feel proud.
And then grab that little hope that we had, bring it back, and start over and then find something. And we make and remake and retry and regroup and have hope and then quit again. We had the time to pick up and start again. And so we were forced to stop the train, not voluntarily necessarily, but COVID actually helped us in this process as weird as it might sound because otherwise we might not have gotten where we are today. You know, because we used to make a quick fix, make a next song for the next show, make a booklet for the next show. And this was like the result of that, which has been incredible.Īxell of Swedish House Mafia Tells Apple Music About How The Pandemic Influenced The Group’s Return… Unfortunately, the pandemic hits, but for us, it was like those two years are long awaited two years for us to force each other to be in the studio together and come up and cook up this. So for us that energy has built into this. We did a couple of shows where we sold out to Swedish stadiums, and that was for us like a big hug from our friends showing appreciation that we're back. Obviously Ultra wasn't an announced show, but then we did 19. Which was weird, right? Because it's been so many years apart, but it was like we were on stage last week together. And then I moved back to Sweden and we started these discussions again. A natural progression of that would be like, I do my thing, they do theirs. And guys were here and then after we split up last time, I was still living abroad. We bumped into each other there a couple of times. And we have something that we love and we feel is super unique and especially unique to us and something that we stand for. So just went in there and just dove and discovered and tweaked the synths. The only positive thing about the pandemic was we got the year. You know, it's like we had some time together now and during the pandemic, we got that. Steve Angello Of Swedish House Mafia Tells Apple Music About Their Return… They tell Zane about the origin of the song and its message, how the pandemic and missing each other and their fans influenced their return, and more. Swedish House Mafia join Zane Lowe on Apple Music 1 to discuss their highly anticipated return and their new song “It Gets Better”.