molly releases debut album '22'

Electronic artist molly released her debut album, "22," today via Colorize, arriving just over two years after her first single came out in July 2024. The eleven-track record opens with "drops of oil" and features guest turns from MØØNE, Mees Salomé, sandpiper, OCULA, Richard Walters, FARLEY, Afnan Prince, Hessian and LeyeT, with molly's own voice appearing on the record for the first time in her catalog.

In the two years since her debut single, molly built a following in dance music through streaming momentum and festival support: her track "Here Again" has passed 5 million Spotify streams on its own, with another 5 million spread across her Rushing In EP, contributing to more than 25 million total streams. Artists including Martin Garrix, Armin van Buuren, Nora En Pure, Above & Beyond, Tritonal and Sultan + Shepard have played her records in their sets, and she has shared stages with Lane 8, Kaskade, Tiësto and Christian Löffler at festivals including Dreamstate, We Belong Here Miami, Elsewhere New York and Amsterdam Dance Event.

The album's title comes from the number 22, which molly said kept recurring while she was writing. What started as a record about unity, love and connection turned into a yearlong reckoning with self-doubt. "I spent so much of the album feeling like I needed to become more in order to deserve my place as an artist," she said, adding that she came to realize she didn't need to change to belong.

Dancing Astronaut named molly one of its 2026 Artists to Watch ahead of the release. She posted a DJ set filmed at Joshua Tree the day before the album dropped and has dates lined up through the rest of 2026 in London, Vancouver, Los Angeles, New York, Seattle and Toronto, with "22" now marked on the release calendar as her first full-length.