Mall Girl
Norwegian art-pop outfit Mall Girl share electric new single 'Poolside Person', the latest track to be shared from their forthcoming debut album Superstar scheduled for release April 29th via Jansen Records.
Following previous singles 'For Hannah', ‘Bachtap’ & ‘Bubbly Cool Drink’, 'Poolside Person' is the latest track to be shared ahead of the debut album which the band describe as: "an image of living your best life as a rich celebrity, spending lazy afternoons drinking colourful drinks by the pool, contrasting with the conflicting feeling of craving something deep and meaningful, living with the fear that all people will see is the ‘person by the poolside'".
For Superstar, Mall Girl (comprised of Iver Armand Tandsether, Hannah Veslemøy Narvesen, Eskild Myrvoll and Bethany Forseth-Reichberg were forced to get creative when the pandemic hit, sidelining best-laid plans to flesh out some songs before heading into the studio with longtime collaborator Marcus Forsgren. Which discussing Narvesen explains "Because of COVID regulations and the four of us living in two different cities, we changed the way we worked with the songs quite radically in the months leading up to the studio recording. We’ve always been very oriented towards the live performance of the songs, including when we compose them together in our rehearsal space. That way of working has led to some challenges when recording, as you end up listening to the songs in a different manner and might figure out you should have done everything differently."
“We actually ended up remotely composing big parts of the album, with everyone working from their own home studio and bouncing ideas back and forth. This was a very welcome change of workflow for us, and it led to us making some songs which probably wouldn’t have turned out that way had we been together in the same room."
Pre-order the album: https://mallgirl.bandcamp.com/
