Malibu will release her debut album Vanities on October 3 via YEAR0001. along with the news, the Swedish artist shares her new single “So Sweet & Willing” the second taste of her forthcoming LP, “So Sweet & Willing,” is the follow-up her first single “Spicy City”.

It’s been a busy couple of  years for for Malibu, the artist has supported Oklou on tour and her United in Flames NTS show has grown into a listener favorite, featuring guests like ML Buch, Evian Christ, and Julianna Barwick. Her previous work includes a track on the influential PAN’s Mono No Aware compilation, her 2024 Essential Mixtape EP on YEAR0001 (Provoker, yung lean) with Merely, Palaces of Pity.

Written mostly over two years in Stockholm—nu means “now” in Swedish (as well as “naked” in French)—, Vanities is also a meditation on cities. In particular their panoramas: cities experienced from the outside, cities seen from above. Stockholm here becomes a substitute for the parallel loneliness and broken promises of L.A., where the album was finished.

Nightmares, the music seems to say, are no less dreams. Unrealities, no less real.

Malibu quote on Vanities:

The sea brought small treasures back to the shore that The Girl scours every day. She finds little things buried in the wet sand, she fills her pockets with them and walks back home. She lays the little treasures around the house.

She wanders around, from one room to the other ; one is dark and cold. The AC works but the light doesn’t when she flicks the switch. The sun that hits the electric blinds hardly penetrates the room, the light dances on the walls, predictable yet never the same.The Girl likes the corridor, it is narrow and she likes the sound of her heels on the hardwood floor. Between two doors, a painting, too small, loosely framed ; waves are distinguishable, and in the horizon the glow of the birth of a sun, or its death. Whatever.

When the night comes she roams around the city in her Chevrolet, the cream leather seats are warm and she gets dizzy in the winding roads. She stops and looks over the valley slowly lighting up in the dusk, —a silent watcher.

I am one of those that are invisible, with a window down maybe, part of this undefined symphony of cars that come and go. Teenagers roll-by, fast, loud, —and we all look at the same sky, the same planes landing and taking-off, the same lights blinking on the tops of downtown, the same corridors of taillights, the same trees that block the view. We sit and fantasize a thousand lives, in the blaring sweetness of the night that’s come.

Malibu
Vanities
Tracklist

01 Nu
02 A World Beyond Lashes
03 So Sweet & Willing
04 Plums (Interlude)
05 L’empire Du Vide
06 The Hills (Interlude)
07 Spicy City
08 Lactonic Crush
09 What Is It That Breaks
10 Contact
11 Jaded
12 Vanities
13 Watching People Die

Pre-order Vanities by Malibu HERE