googly eyes releases EP written/prod. w Tove Lo and Flume

GOOGLY EYES RELEASES
PAINT ME LIKE ONE OF YOUR FAV AMERICAN GIRLS EP
CREATED IN COLLABORATION WITH TOVE LO AND FLUME
ON PRETTY SWEDE / NEON GOLD / VIRGIN

LIVE IN LOS ANGELES TONIGHT 3.13 @ PEPPERMINT CLUB HERE

ANNOUNCES NORTH AMERICAN TOUR WITH ASHNIKKO
(tour dates below)
Today, googly eyes releases her new EP, titled paint me like one of your fav american girls (Pretty Swede, Neon Gold, Virgin). The EP has come about under the utmost unique circumstances: in September of 2023, Tove Lo and Flume posted an artist development open call out to new artists on Instagram, and after receiving and reviewing thousands of demos, googly eyes emerged as the dream artist for the opportunity. Besides her EP release show tonight in Los Angeles at Peppermint Club, she’ll go on her first-ever North American tour, supporting Ashnikko.

She writes about it extensively in this Substack, including a telling studio photo with Tove Lo and Flume and adds: "This project was me cracking open the shell of goog that had protected me, the shell rebuilt myself in, and letting other people contribute. It meant allowing myself to be misunderstood. To let other people take a crack at a nebulous, messy, incomplete vision I had and ADD to it. To build something together!"

Now two and a half years on, the fruits of their collaboration bear fruit on “I Don’t Go Out”, and “Made Of”, “Bruises on the Peach,”, and today, she also releases “Feel Like I Died”, the hazy, emotionally charged tracks blend warped electronic textures, intimate pop melodies, and soft-focus vulnerability as part of the full collaborative EP paint me like one of your fav american girls.

googly eyes (her name is stylized in lowercase) herself adds: “Feel Like I Died” is from the very first session I did with Tove and Flume. When Tove asked how I was doing, I said “I feel like I died!” I was so awestruck over being there, in the same room as two of my favorite mavericks - knowing they wanted to make music with me? Those feelings of awe, reverence, wonder… those feelings are my favorite, and they’re feelings worth writing about. EP: Up until this project, I kept the entire world of googs world very close to my chest. This EP is the first googly eyes project I’ve ever opened up to outside collaborators - from creative directors and mix engineers, to the incredible Tove Lo and Flume. I’ve learned so much through these connections,

Opening the world of googly to new voices has been humbling and expansive. I feel deeply lucky to make art with people I admire and respect, to learn and grow from them, and this EP marked the beginning of that openness and a whole new era for me.”

The rising electronic pop auteur, googly eyes ended 2025 on another very high note with her track “Jesus and John Wayne” being added to NPR’s 125 songs of 2025. The track is a collaboration and performed with Joy Oladokun & August Ponthier.

Sitting somewhere between alternative pop and electronic indie, googly eyes delivers glitchy, technicolor, poetic songs of the heart – all 100% written, recorded and produced entirely on her own to this point, best illustrated on googs’ 2024 debut Starlet EP and its breakout singles “Mid-Leap”, “Internet Star” and “Waste of Conversation”. As an artist, songwriter, and producer, googly eyes lives in a sonic world entirely of her own making. With a focus on vocal production, electronic influences, and poetic lyricism, googly eyes paints vivid soundscapes blending raw, human elements with angular, synthetic ones. What began as a project for demos and works in progress has grown into a force of creativity, rich innovation, and play.

“Made Of” and “I Don’t Go Out” mark googly eyes’ latest releases on Pretty Swede Records, an independent label founded in 2022 by Tove Lo. To date, Pretty Swede has released Tove’s 2023 LP Dirt Femme and her collaborative 2024 HEAT EP with SG Lewis. googly eyes’ Starlet EP marked the first release by Pretty Swede outside of Tove’s own artist project.

Pretty Swede Records have signed googly eyes in collaboration with Tove’s longtime collaborators Neon Gold, themselves known for a star-studded history of debut releases, from Tove’s own Truth Serum EP in 2014 (featuring “Habits”) to iconic early releases from Charli XCX, MARINA & The Diamonds, Christine and the Queens, Ellie Goulding and more.

googly eyes - paint me like one of your fav american girls EP tracklist:
01 - I Don't Go Out
02 - Feel Like I Died
03 - Made Of
04 - Bruises on the Peach
05 - E V E R Y W H E R E

googly eyes on tour:
(% is with Ashnikko - tickets here)
3.13 - Los Angeles, CA @ Peppermint Club
3.20 - Los Angeles, CA @ Shrine Auditorium % (sold out)
3.21 - San Francisco, CA @ The Warfield % (sold out)
5.1 - Nashville, TN @ Marathon Music Works % (sold out)
5.2 - Atlanta, GA @ Coca-Cola Roxy % (sold out)
5.5 - Orlando, FL @ Hard Rock Live % (sold out)
5.6 - Miami Beach, FL @ The Fillmore %
5.8 - Charlotte, NC @ The Fillmore % (sold out)
5.9 - Washington, DC @ The Anthem %
5.12 - Pittsburgh, PA @ Stage AE % (sold out)
5.13 - Philadelphia, PA @ The Fillmore % (sold out)
5.15 - New York, NY @ Hammerstein Ballroom % (sold out)
5.16 - Boston, MA @ Roadrunner % (sold out)
5. 18 - Montreal, QC @ MTELUS % (sold out)
5.19 - Toronto, ON @ HISTORY % (sold out)