The Norwegian pop punk quartet has finally announced their highly anticipated debut.

The album, neatly titled Try Not To Freak Out is fronted by smashing new cut Magazine, a break-up song of the unusual kind.

Barely pushing past two and a half minute, Magazine truly embodies the effective punk attitude. With a bouncy, compact guitar track and stern drumbeats, Sløtface still don’t quite bow down to any genre stereotypes. With a distinctive slapping bassline and cut-edge attitude, the song is more than merely another guitar track. The shifting sound terrain, and striking agenda makes Magazine a tune that will definitely be on high rotation for the next few months.

“Patti Smith would never put up with this shit”, lead singer Haley Shea sings. Drawing parallels to the punk poet and feminist icon as a counterpoint to the shitty attitudes to body image we see in magazines.

“Thoughts that aren’t mine keep running through my head… Thunder thighs keeps reaching for the measuring tape,” Haley sings, giving away the feeling that even though you know better, there is still pressure to live up to ridiculous beauty standards.

She explains that:

I really wanted to write a killer breakup song, but I’ve never really had any experience with heartbreaking, devastating, aggressive breakups, so I thought I would write a breakup song about breaking up with bad body image and unrealistic representations of human bodies in media. It’s fuelled by the back and forth of knowing that society creates unrealistic expectations regarding what people “should” look like, and still feeling uncomfortable in your own skin because you don’t live up to those images.

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Try Not To Freak Out

Tracklisting

1. Magazine
   2. Galaxies
   3. Pitted
   4. Sun Bleached
   5. Pools
   6. Night Guilt
   7. Try
   8. Nancy Drew
   9. Slumber
   10. Backyard

Sløtface’s debut album Try Not To Freak Out is due September 15th on Propeller Recordings.