inside googly eyes new EP 'paint me like one of your fav american girls'

As someone who literally doesn't go out anymore, I feel you, googz.

I just had the honor of an advance listen of googly eyes’ paint me like one of your fav american girls EP, set to release on March 13th later this year (under Pretty Swede, Neon Gold, and Virgin), and I already love her. The first track I heard was “I Don’t Go Out,” which feels like if Imogen Heap made a club banger, but the club is your couch, but somehow you still have VIP access. IYKYK.

paint me like one of your fav american girls EP cover.

googly also just dropped the music video for “Bruises on the Peach” a few days ago. This track arrives as a hazy, emotionally charged confession, complete with warped electronic textures wrapped around intimate pop melodies, all softened by a kind of soft-focus vulnerability.

Co-written alongside Tove Lo and Flume, and co-produced with Flume - following the collaborative format of the other songs that will appear on the EP - the track floats between bruised romance and euphoric release, pairing glossy, drifting synths with a raw, diaristic edge. It’s a song about intimacy as risk: the quiet danger of being fully known, and the trust it takes to hand someone the blueprint to either hurt you deeply or hold you gently.

Before the right in the middle of the EP unfolding, another track quietly deepens the picture. “Made Of” moves differently, less about retreat, more about exposure. Where “I Don’t Go Out Anymore” leans into chosen intimacy, “Made Of” lingers on the anatomy of feeling yourself, asking what you're really made of once affection, fear, and self-protection start to overlap. The lyrics read like a private inventory, full of those moments of self‑doubt, tenderness, and emotional friction held up to the light for you to see. It's open and unapologetic, gloves-off, no punches pulled. Try me and find out what I'm made of.

But hold up, let's take a step back, just in case the googly eyes hype train hasn’t hit your stop just yet.

googly eyes exists in that liminal space between alternative pop and electronic indie, crafting songs that feel both meticulously engineered and emotionally unguarded. For years, her project lived almost entirely in solitude. 100% written, recorded, and produced by her, most clearly introduced on her 2024 debut Starlet EP, where tracks like “Mid-Leap,” “Internet Star,” and “Waste of Conversation” revealed an artist obsessed with vocal texture, poetic lyricism, and the tension between raw feeling and synthetic sound. What began as a place to park demos slowly evolved into a fully realized sonic world: glitchy, technicolor, and unmistakably hers.

That self-contained universe is precisely what caught the attention of Tove Lo and Flume in 2023, back when the two artists issued an open call for new talent, an invitation that drew thousands of submissions. googly eyes emerged as the singular choice. Nearly two years later, that moment becomes the origin point of paint me like one of your fav american girls, her first project shaped in collaboration, and a quiet but significant turning point in how her music now breathes.

googly eyes, photo credit Sophia Schrank.

That tension between intimacy and risk, between solitude and collaboration, runs through the EP as a whole. paint me like one of your fav american girls doesn’t abandon the quiet interiority that defines googly eyes; instead, it expands it. The result is a body of music that is both more open and more precise, arriving at a moment when choosing slowness, emotional clarity, and depth over spectacle feels subtly radical.

Fresh off recognition from NPR, who named her collaboration “Jesus and John Wayne” (with Joy Oladokun and August Ponthier) one of the 125 Songs of 2025, googly eyes enters this next chapter with momentum already behind her. With the EP landing March 13 via Pretty Swede, Neon Gold, and Virgin, it doesn't feel like she’s arriving, but more like she’s finally letting the rest of us inside.