Oslo trio Mall Girl – vocalist Bethany Forseth-Reichberg, guitarist Iver Armand Tandsether and drummer Veslemøy Narvesen – have today released their second album ‘Pure Love’, via Jansen Records.
Featuring previous singles ‘Inzane’, ‘Emo Shred’, and their ode to ‘giving love a real go’ ‘Super Lazy Girl’, ‘Pure Love’ follows the Oslo experimentalists’ 2022 debut full length ‘Superstar’.
‘Pure Love’ unpacks the existential questions: “What do I believe in? Who do I want to become? and Where is my life headed?”. Animated by excursions into dream-pop, midwest emo, garage and math rock, Mall Girl prioritise emotion over fixed meaning, capturing the maelstrom of the (post) college girl experience.
Of the album experience, Bethany shares: “I had just seen Big Thief live and felt like Adrianne Lenker had opened up a new pathway in my musical brain. After listening to ‘Dragon New Warm Mountain I Believe In You’ on repeat for maybe a whole month and forcing Iver and Veslemøy to listen to the riff in ‘Simulation Swarm’ maybe equally as many times, the process of writing new music started.”
She continues: “I guess the album is like a break up album meets a Bildungsroman (is it like an episode of Girls? Maybe). Ironically, the “post-college-rock” sound could maybe go hand in hand with the post college experience I’ve had a go at writing about. I am glad we wrote this album and slightly (very) nervous to let people hear our take on Pure Love.”
Tune in now.
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Photo credit: Vilde Nordheim Evensen
