Lady Scout Share New Single “Identical Children”
Debut LP Brink arrives March 20, 2026 by way of AWAL
Oct 16, 2025
Pictures by Lamia Karic
Swedish trio Lady Scout return with “Identical Children,” a hovering new single that gives the primary glimpse into their long-awaited debut album Brink, out March 20, 2026 by way of AWAL.
The observe explores the wistful concept of discovering the individuals who really perceive you solely later in life and questioning what it might need been prefer to develop up alongside them.
“I spent an enormous a part of my early childhood outdoors of Sweden (Japan, the US, Germany),” says vocalist and guitarist Emma Jansson. “Once I was twelve, my household lastly settled in a small city again house. It wasn’t till a number of years later that I met individuals who really favored the identical issues I did. For the primary time I actually felt understood; just like the world opened up as soon as I discovered individuals who listened to the identical music and had been drawn to the identical bizarre area of interest issues. Once I met Kevin and discovered he spent a lot of his childhood in Canada earlier than settling in Sweden, we realized we share plenty of oddly particular childhood recollections. It jogged my memory of that second I first discovered like-minded folks, and made me replicate on what it might need been prefer to know these folks earlier in life. How a lot that will have meant. That very same feeling is the inspiration behind ‘Identical Children’ and an enormous motive this band exists within the first place: to type your individual little circle with its personal secret language and beliefs round it.”
Produced by Alex Farrar (Wednesday, Snail Mail), “Identical Children” shimmers with Lady Scout’s trademark mix of melodic guitar strains and heartfelt lyricism, channeling each nostalgia and connection.
The one arrives alongside the announcement of Brink, the band’s first full-length file following a trilogy of EPs and a breakout tour with Alvvays. Throughout its 13 tracks, Brink captures Lady Scout’s aptitude for duality, with towering anthems sitting alongside moments of hushed tenderness, pleasure offset by nervousness, and a deep sense of craving for what comes subsequent.
“Brink got here out of a time once I couldn’t actually image what the long run would possibly seem like,” Jansson explains. “Someplace between dread and anticipation; I used to be standing on the sting of one thing unknown, craving change however feeling caught in the identical outdated patterns. It was like actual satisfaction felt simply out of attain, and looking out again at childhood and teenage recollections made me understand how a lot had modified. How a lot I missed that sense of chance you carry as a child. The load of life selections had crept up on all three of us, and abruptly each resolution felt extra significant than it ever had earlier than, as if we might hint the rising ripple impact of each alternative we made. Making this album grew to become a approach to work by way of these emotions, the confusion, the grief, the sensation of time operating out, the truth of getting older, as a lot because it grew to become a way of discovering new causes to maintain shifting ahead.”
Lady Scout will take Brink on the street in spring 2026, with a European and UK tour
GIRL SCOUT – 2026 Tour Dates
April 16 – Oslo, John Dee
April 17 – Gothenburg, Pustervik
April 18 – Stockholm, Debaser Strand
April 22 – Lund, Mejeriet
April 23 – Aarhus, Phono
April 24 – Copenhagen, Best Bar
April 25 – Hamburg, Turmzimmer
April 26 – Berlin, Kantine am Berghain
April 28 – Cologne, Blue Shell
April 29 – Paris, Le Pop Up du Label
Might 1 – Nijmegen, Merlyen
Might 2 – Amsterdam, Paradiso Small Corridor
Might 16 – Manchester, The Deaf Institute
Might 17 – Glasgow, Room 2
Might 18 – Leeds, Belgrave Music Corridor
Might 20 – London, The Storage
Might 21 – Bristol, Thekla
Might 22- Bearded Idea Pageant, Derbyshire
Might 23 – Brighton, Patterns
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