Celine Cairo - Panacea LP - Coloured Vinyl-
18 juni 2026
"Celine Cairo finds saviour in nature on Panacea, a spellbinding, third album set to send the award-winning, Dutch singer into the mainstream. Its ten tracks capture Celine at her happiest, bringing the outdoors into sumptuous, sensual songs in which awe, optimism and honesty collide. A fully independent artist for 15 years, Celine’s organic growth has allowed her to develop at her own pace, making her own decisions and amassing a loyal, ever-growing audience. Her 2016 debut, Free Fall, streamed 20 million times, was recorded in L.A. with the Grammy-nominated producer Bill Lefler. 2021’s follow-up Overflow was made in London with Tim Bran (London Grammar, Birdy, Aurora) and saw the singer take off on social media and sell out the biggest venues of her career. “I’ve never had so much fun making music,” says Celine. “Usually, I write lots of songs, then choose the best. This time, I wrote only ten and all of them made it onto the album.” Key to Panacea was a month-long, solo trip to Asia in early 2024 that signalled a rebirth for the singer., who has suffered from bouts of anxiety and depression since her teens. “When I left for Asia, it was winter and I was incredibly low,” says Celine. “Ben and I had briefly broken up after a decade together and I was desperate to escape. The miracle was that the moment my plane landed back in Amsterdam, everything changed. My depression disappeared. “It was like a massive reset, after which I was ready to completely surrender to the process of writing and recording. For the first time, I really let go of any sense of control and the songs just poured out of me. I leant into the intuition that I had reconnected with abroad.” Two days after returning, Celine wrote Panacea, the album’s title track and lead single, a stately, spine-tingling cello, synths and 12 string guitar-driven depiction of life coming sharply into focus. “Panacea is an emotional rollercoaster of a song about a great weight lifting from me,” says Celine. “I saw Ben at the airport and realised in an instant how I felt about him, how much his love meant to me. I’d never experienced such mental clarity. Being able to make decisions without being paralysed by anxiety was like a door swinging open into a new life.” Celine called on members of her longtime band to co-write, while trips to London brought her the basis of Woman, the shimmering, beats-backed I Am I and the hypnotic, acoustic guitar-heavy Swallows. The cello on Panacea and Woman came courtesy of Devon-based India Bourne. Violins and viola were recorded by Dutch arranger and player Annelieke Marselje. As ever, taking centre stage is Celine’s arresting, otherworldly voice, a force of nature in itself. In Celine’s teens, that voice won her a competition to perform at New York’s Carnegie Hall and Amsterdam’s Royal Concertgebouw and earned her a place at Amsterdam’s prestigious Conservatory. While Celine’s audience abroad has grown organically, last year it exploded unexpectedly online. “It’s been crazy,” says Celine. “I posted some videos of me playing live and suddenly they were being shared everywhere. I’ve just played a concert in France because of fans I found on YouTube. It really has been the greatest gift. The timing couldn’t be better for Panacea. I can’t wait to get started all over again.” Cairo will bring “Panacea” to the stage with her full band at a special hometown show in Amsterdam's Melkweg on 18 June 2026. "
