Molly have shared their new song ‘Ballerina’. The band’s new album ‘Picturesque’ is incoming, and it finds the central song writing duo taking new risks. try the succinct, pop-edged new single ‘Ballerina’.
Shoegaze with a post-rock vantage point, ‘Ballerina’ is intended as a blast of melody, and it certainly lives up to its promise. A focussed, dynamic return, it started as a challenge to condense their complex, wide-open ideas into something sharper.
“We started off with a specific goal to create a proper Molly track with all the usual quirks and features, but keep it under the four-minute mark,” explains singer/guitarist Lars Andersson. “Spoiler: we didn’t succeed, but it’s close enough I guess.”
The lyrics are actually based on the old Hans Christian Andersen story The Steadfast Tin Soldier – which happens to be one of Lars’ favourite fairy-tales. He adds: “It’s a bittersweet story about a tin soldier’s love for a paper ballerina. Like all the best fairy-tales it ends tragically, just like the song.”
From Molly’s upcoming album “Picturesque” Out 13th of January on Sonic Cathedral
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