🎧 Approved: Girl Scout

Stockholm trio Girl Scout came together while studying jazz, but their shared obsession was always garage rock and Britpop sounds of the 80s and 90s. That mix of chops, and a penchant for scrappier music, gives their songs a loose, lived-in feel, where melody comes first and polish is optional.

New single ‘Keeper’, taken from their upcoming debut album due in March, pulls away from the scuzziness of last month’s ‘Operator’ and sinks into something foggier and more exposed. Built around a steady pulse and layers of synths and piano, it feels like a slow emotional spill, as frontwoman Emma Jansson expels “I could never be a mother to myself or to any other // every lamb I leave to slaughter”.

Jansson describes the track as a purge, written to get thoughts out of her head and into the room. That intent comes through in the song’s structure, which leans into repetition and builds a palpable feeling of release.

“I really wanted to rid myself of every bad feeling and put it into something outside of my head”, she continues. When making the track, “we had a completely different approach than we normally do. There’s a drumbeat and a bassline and about a dozen synthesizers and pianos. It doesn’t really sound like anything else we’ve done before”. 

🎧Watch the video for ‘Keeper’ below