Swedish band Girl Scout has announce their debut album Brink set for release on 26 March 2026 via AWAL. Following a trilogy of introductory EPs and a buzzed-about tour with Alvvays, the Stockholm-based trio teamed up with Alex Farrar (Wednesday, Snail Mail) for their first-ever full-length record. A sun-drenched prism of Girl Scout’s guitar-driven indie rock, Brink refracts with a new glow from each song to the next.
Towering anthems intersecting with hushed tenderness. Nostalgia with momentary living. Doubt with joy. Forever a band of dualities, Brink is no exception for Girl Scout. Comprised of 13 tracks caught between apocalyptic anxiety and wistful escapism, the album captures the all-too-familiar crossroads of feeling stuck, yearning for change, and standing on the edge of something unknown.
“Brink came out of a time when I couldn’t really picture what the future might look like,” say Girl Scout’s Emma Jansson about the record. “Somewhere between dread and anticipation; I was standing on the edge of something unknown, craving change but feeling stuck in the same old patterns. It was like real satisfaction felt just out of reach, and looking back at childhood and teenage memories made me realize how much had changed. How much I missed that sense of possibility you carry as a kid. The weight of life choices had crept up on all three of us, and suddenly every decision felt more meaningful than it ever had before, as if we could trace the growing ripple effect of every choice we made. Making this album became a way to work through those feelings — the confusion, the grief, the feeling of time running out, the reality of getting older — as much as it became a means of finding new reasons to keep moving forward.”
Alongside Brink’s announcement, the three-piece have released their new single ‘Same Kids’. Serving as the first taste of the record, it’s a soaring track inspired by the question of what adolescence would have been like if you could have shared it with the friends you find later in life.
“I spent a big part of my early childhood outside of Sweden (Japan, the US, Germany),” adds Emma about the song. “When I was twelve, my family finally settled in a small town back home. It wasn’t until a few years later that I met people who truly liked the same things I did. For the first time I really felt understood; like the world opened up once I found people who listened to the same music and were drawn to the same weird niche things. When I met Kevin and learned he spent much of his childhood in Canada before settling in Sweden, we realized we share a lot of oddly specific childhood memories. It reminded me of that moment I first found like-minded people, and made me reflect on what it might have been like to know these people earlier in life. How much that would have meant. That same feeling is the inspiration behind ‘Same Kids’ and a big reason this band exists in the first place: to form your own little circle with its own secret language and ideals around it.”
Girl Scout Live Dates
2026
April
16 – Oslo, John Dee
17 – Gothenburg, Pustervik
18 – Stockholm, Debaser Strand
22 – Lund, Mejeriet
23 – Aarhus, Phono
24 – Copenhagen, Ideal Bar
25 – Hamburg, Turmzimmer
26 – Berlin, Kantine am Berghain
28 – Cologne, Blue Shell
29 – Paris, Le Pop Up du Label
May
1 – Nijmegen, Merlyen
2 – Amsterdam, Paradiso Small Hall
16 – Manchester, The Deaf Institute
17 – Glasgow, Room 2
18 – Leeds, Belgrave Music Hall
20 – London, The Garage
21 – Bristol, Thekla
22- Bearded Theory Festival, Derbyshire
23 – Brighton, Patterns
For more information on Girl Scout please check their instagram and website.
