girli

girli, the stage name of English musician Milly Toomey, is a London-based pop artist known for blending bubblegum melodies with punk attitude and rap-inflected delivery. Emerging through a string of independent EPs in the mid-2010s, she built a reputation for genre-hopping songwriting that critics have linked to hyperpop aesthetics while keeping pop hooks front and centre, often addressing queerness, mental health and female rage with blunt, confessional lyrics.

Her 2019 debut album, «Odd One Out», marked a shift toward a more mature alternative-pop sound, moving beyond the deliberately abrasive edges of her earlier work. Songs like «Hot Mess» and «Girl I Met On The Internet» showcase her knack for turning messy personal experience into hooky, singalong choruses.

More than four years later she released her second album, «Matriarchy», exploring female sensuality and lesbian relationships with a bolder, more assured voice. Across her catalogue, girli has remained an outspoken figure in the UK alt-pop scene, prized for her DIY ethos and refusal to soften her image for mainstream approval.