Minneapolis band she’s green are excited to announce a new EP, Swallowtail, arriving July 10, 2026, via Photo Finish Records. “paper thin” premieres today with an official music video, exploring the connection between love and lust over soaring reverberation. As the song unravels, fragile tension builds with gauzy guitars and Zofia Smith’s melancholy vocals. Every sound is on the verge of breaking apart, delicate but loaded with emotion, capturing the feeling of love slipping away.
“‘paper thin’ explores the power of lust in a dying relationship: how it can be confused for love when in reality, the relationship has already faded,” explains bandleader Zofia Smith.
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In February, the band channeled the distress of a grim world into hope with thunderous riffs with “mettle.” The song unfolds over a hazy wash of reverb-soaked guitars, where shimmering, textured riffs are anchored by driving drums. The rhythm section locks into forward momentum, while Zofia Smith’s vocals float just above the mix, powerful with a soft edge.
Last year, the band unveiled Chrysalis. Their first project in over 2 years, the five songs perfectly capture their ethereal brand of dream pop, merging wistful vocals with fuzzed-out, harmonic guitars. The five-piece previewed the EP with songs like “Willow,” “Figurines,” and “Graze,” earning fans at The FADER, PAPER Magazine, Stereogum, and more.
To kick off the year, she’s green made their debut in China, embarking on an entirely sold-out headlining run in January. The premiere of their debut KEXP session followed, which saw the band previewing the upcoming EP in a performance that DJ Cheryl Waters called “Absolutely beautiful.” NME and Alternative Press have also recently declared the five-piece a ‘Band to Watch,’ with the latter remarking, “You can always tell when a band favor control over spectacle, and that’s the case for she’s green. With understated arrangements drawing from alternative, dream pop, and indie rock, their music sits in a sort of dichotomy — carving out a space that feels both fragile and self-assured.”
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she’s green show no signs of slowing down. Earlier this year, the band announced they’d be supporting Chapterhouse on select dates of their first North American tour in 16 years. They’ll also support Bad Suns, with headline performances and appearances at Nothing’s Slide Away Festival sprinkled in between. This summer sees the group returning to the UK, with first-time appearances at Reading & Leeds. For more information on upcoming shows, see below and follow the she’s green on Instagram at @shes__green.
★ SHE’S GREEN LIVE 2026 ★
APRIL
3 – Grand Rapids, MI – Elevation %
4 – Indianapolis, IN – HiFi Indy %
5 – Columbus, OH – Newport Music Hall %
7 – South Burlington, VT – Higher Ground %
8 – New Haven, CT – Toad’s Place %
10 – Asbury Park, NJ – The Stone Pony %
11 – Baltimore, MD – Soundstage %
12 – Charlottesville, VA – Jefferson Theater %
MAY
16 – Brooklyn, NY – Slide Away Festival @ Brooklyn Paramount †
17 – Washington, DC – Black Cat #
19 – Cambridge, MA – The Sinclair #
20 – Montreal, QC – Theatre Fairmount #
21 – Toronto, ON – The Concert Hall #
22 – Chicago, IL – Slide Away Festival @ Aragon Ballroom †
AUGUST
28 – Leeds, UK – Leeds Festival †
30 – Reading, UK – Reading Festival †
† – Festival Appearance
% – with Bad Suns
# – with Chapterhouse
1. locket
2. dear ivy
3. empty house
4. paper thin – WATCH
5. mettle – WATCH
6. keeper
7. close your eyes
ABOUT SHE’S GREEN
Minneapolis band she’s green describe themselves as “moss music”. It’s music for wandering into the forest and getting lost there; for discovering magic forgotten deep in nature; for slowly shedding who you were before. “I always think about this experience I had as a kid, seeing a stump that was filled with moss. It gave me the feeling that there are smaller worlds,” says guitarist Liam Armstrong. Inspired as much by J.R.R. Tolkien and Hayao Miyazaki as by Slowdive and the Cocteau Twins, the band — consisting of Armstrong, Zofia Smith, Raines Lucas, Kevin Seebec,k and Teddy Nordvold — aim to create their own musical and visual world defined by dreamy fantasy, emotional openness,s and sonic depth. “I want it to feel like an escape,” Smith says.
she’s green formed in 2022 in the Minneapolis college DIY scene. Smith and Armstrong lived together in a shared house, and bonded over the recording sessions they heard coming from each other’s bedrooms, before bringing she’s green to life in basement jam sessions and beginning to gig prolifically around the Twin Cities. In 2023, they released their debut EP, Wisteria, which included the viral hit “Mandy” — now boasting over three million Spotify listens. After graduating from college, she’s green started to hit the road, heading all over North America with the likes of Slow Pulp, Softcult, and Glixen, and all the while accumulating an increasingly devoted fanbase.
In February 2025, she’s green announced their signing to Photo Finish Records, and in August, released their second EP, Chrysalis. Recorded in part with Slow Pulp’s Henry Stoehr, it builds on the shimmering shoegaze and dream-pop of Wisteria, with ever more irresistible melodies and deeper songcraft. Ranging from the heavy, driving breakdown of “Graze” to the acoustic guitar-driven sway of “Silhouette”, the band created more collaboratively than ever and remained open to following every instinct. “We wanted to expand the scope of what we did with the first EP, and see how far we could push either side of the music — whether it’s harsh and jarring or it’s inviting and warm,” Armstrong says. Smith expands: “We’re really trying to listen closely to what the song’s personality is. I almost think of songs as like people; I’m like, what do you wanna be? Who are you?”
Not content to rest, she’s green ended 2025 by recording their follow-up EP, Swallowtail, that will form the second half of a full-length, and heading overseas for the first time for a UK tour in support of Softcult. As they win over shoegaze devotees old and new everywhere they go with their authentic, loving approach to their sound, it’s clear that this huge year for she’s green is only the beginning. Like mist in the forest, mysterious and enveloping, she’s green welcome you in.
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