Oslo-based alt-pop provocateur TULLE releases the new single, ‘Devour / The Performer’. Following her earlier release ‘The Axe And The Tree’, this latest offering cements TULLE’s reputation for weaving alternative, theatrical sensibilities into expansive, pop-infused soundscapes.
Opening with her silky vocals and heart-drawn melodies, ‘Devour / The Performer’ unfolds across an alternative, noir-tinged backbone, swelling with synths and pop-leaning hooks. Keyboard stabs punctuate the track, balancing between soaring expectation and the bittersweet reality of falling flat. Clocking in just over four minutes, the single is a dual narrative, revealing intimate, raw influences that give the track its poignancy.
“This is a really special song to me because it’s sort of a ‘two-in-one’ release,” TULLE explains. “The outro, ‘The Performer’, was a song that I wrote many months before we wrote ‘Devour’. I wanted it to feel like a sad clown in the dressing room at the back of a circus, all alone. My whole project is about performing and putting on a mask… constantly trying your best, wanting people to notice, and kind of always falling flat. Slowly going a little bit mad over it.”
Born with a morbid curiosity, TULLE writes with a fascination for human purpose, the afterlife, and the shadowy corners of folklore and horror. Since releasing her debut single in 2022, she’s carved out a unique alt-pop niche, receiving support from Spotify’s New Music Friday and Norway’s NRK P3, and has built her artistry around the image of a circus clown: always performing, rarely understood, yet endlessly compelling.
Listen to the new single below:
