Mall Girl have shared new single “Emo Shred”, the track arrives ahead of the band’s new album Pure Love, available January 26th via Jansen Records. Of the new single vocalist Bethany Forseth-Reichberg said: “This was the first step into our new musical bubble, previously released as a demo. It has now metamorphosed into a real song, but is still a song about just driving around in a Chevrolet by the beach. Picture LA nights, sand between your toes and nothing on your mind, except that life feels pretty darn good.” Pure Love is the follow-up from the Oslo band’s debut 2022 debut full length Superstar . Iver Armand Tandsether and drummer Veslemøy Narvesen (one of the most sought-after jazz drummers in Norway) round out the rest of the Norwegian band

It was last year when Bethany and Iver had “a major kick on Midwest Emo” and “all things intricate guitar riffs” – as Bethany expands on the influences at play… “I had also 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.”

An eclectic merging of influences ranging from indie-pop, dream-pop and jazz to midwest emo and math-rock, ‘Pure Love’ the second album from Mall Girl, thematically zeros in on just that, pure love. Through first breakups and dating through post-break-up pain and insecurities, the album finds the band proposing questions: “what do I believe in? Who do I want to become? and Where is my life headed?”.

Bethany went on to say: “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.”

Mall Girl
Pure Love
track list
Jansen Records

1. Inzane
2. All I Should Have Said
3. Energy Lights
4. English Breakfast
5. Glu Myself 2 U
6. Inside Out
7. Super Lazy Girl
8. Emo Shred
9. Pure Love

Mall Girl 2024 Tour Dates

1 February, Trondheim Calling Festival, Norway
17 February, Parkteatret Oslo, Norway

Pre-order Pure Love by Mall Girl HERE