Mall Girl
Pure Love is the second album from the Oslo art-pop experimentalists, following the band's acclaimed 2022 debut full length Superstar which received notable tips from The Guardian, TIME Magazine, The Quietus amongst others.
Bethany Forseth-Reichberg along with guitarist Iver Armand Tandsether and drummer Veslemøy Narvesen combine to form one of the most uncompromising, unique and exhilarating pop outfits coming out of Scandinavia, with Bethany's exquisite voice and intriguing, impassioned prose providing the perfect counterpoint to Iver's explosive guitar work and Veslemøy's intricate percussion.
It was late 2022 when Bethany and Iver had "a major kick on Midwest Emo" and "all things intricate guitar riffs" - as Bethany expanded 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 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."
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Slay Queen
Alternative & Indie - Released by Fig Tree Music on 18 Sep 2018
16-Bit CD Quality 44.1 kHz - Stereo
