“Ballerina” is the latest single off Molly’s forthcoming album Picturesque. The album drops on January 23, 2023 via Sonic Cathedral. The Austrian duo will be touring behind the album, stating January 28, 2023 in Berlin, Germany.

“We started off with a specific goal to create a proper Molly track with all the usual quirks and features, but keep it under the four-minute mark,” explains singer/guitarist Lars Andersson. “Spoiler: we didn’t succeed, but it’s close enough I guess.”

The song is based around the Hans Christian Andersen story The Steadfast Tin Soldier, which is one of Lars’ favourite fairy-tales.

“It’s a bittersweet story about a tin soldier’s love for a paper ballerina,” says Lars of the allegorical tale. “Like all the best fairy-tales it ends tragically, just like the song.”

Picturesque is released on January 13 and it’s an incredible record. It is available on vinyl in a gorgeous gatefold sleeve, including a limited Dinked Edition variant, plus CD and digital.

Like the new single ‘Ballerina’, all of the songs on the album intertwine deeply personal stories with fairy-tales from the Romantic era – Heinrich von Ofterdingen by Novalis; The Seven Ravens and Hans in Luck by the Brothers Grimm; Undine by Friedrich de la Motte Fouqué and The Golden Pot by E.T.A. Hoffmann.

“Every time I go to a museum and I’m about to pass through the era of Romanticism I stop in awe,” says Lars of the enduring appeal of the 18th century artistic movement. “Whatever it is — stories, paintings, music — it triggers something deep within me, something profoundly human. It really hits a nerve, and it utterly immerses me to a point where I can’t move.

“Romanticism was an answer to the Industrial Revolution as well as the social and political norms of the Age Of Enlightenment. Now, we all live in a much more industrialised, materialistic, individualistic and sterile society than any early Romanticist could have ever imagined. Over 200 years later the Romanticists have lost the battle.”

Molly 2023 Tour Dates

January 28 – Berlin, DE – Loophole
January 29 – Dresden, DE – Scheune-Blechschloss
January 31 – Stuttgart, DE – Café Galao
February 2 – London, UK – The Waiting Room
February 3 – Northwich, UK – The Salty Dog
February 4 – Coventry, UK – Just Dropped In
February 5 – Glasgow, UK – Broadcast
February 6 – Leeds, UK – Hyde Park Book Club
February 7 – Exeter, UK – Cavern
February 8 – Brighton, UK – The Hope & Ruin
February 9 – Ghent, BE – De Roes
February 10 – Tours, FR – Bateau Ivre
February 11 – Marseille, FR – Le Molotov
February 17 – Feldkirch, AT – Graf Hugo
February 18 – Innsbruck, AT – Die Bäckerei
February 23 – Vienna, AT – Chelsea

Pre-order Picturesque by Molly HERE