No Mythologies to Follow

No Mythologies to Follow is the debut studio album by Danish singer and songwriter MØ. It was released on 7 March 2014 by Sony Music by Chess Club Records and RCA Victor. The album received positive reviews from music critics. At Metacritic, which assigns a normalised rating out of 100 to reviews from mainstream publications, the album received an average score of 76, based on 19 reviews, which indicates "generally favorable reviews".^[6] No Mythologies to Follow debuted at number 58 on the UK Albums Chart, selling 1,438 copies in its first week.^[16] A Tenth Anniversary edition was released on March 15, 2024. This edition includes three unreleased tracks from the original album sessions. The first of those tracks "Fake Chanel" was released as a single on January 26, 2024.^[17]

No Mythologies to Follow
Studio album by MØ
Released	7 March 2014 (2014-03-07)
Genre	Electropop^[1] synth-pop^[2]
Length	43:59
Label	Chess Club RCA Victor
Producer	Ronni Vindahl Diplo James Dring August "ELOQ" Fenger
MØ chronology
Bikini Daze (2013) No Mythologies to Follow (2014) When I Was Young (2017)
Singles from No Mythologies to Follow
"Glass" Released: 14 January 2013^[3] "Pilgrim" Released: 15 March 2013 "Waste of Time" Released: 7 June 2013^[4] "XXX 88" Released: 30 August 2013^[5] "Don't Wanna Dance" Released: 17 January 2014 "Say You'll Be There" Released: 21 February 2014 "Walk This Way" Released: 3 August 2014

Professional ratings

Aggregate scores
Source	Rating
Metacritic	76/100^[6]
Review scores
Source	Rating
Clash	7/10^[7]
Consequence of Sound	B+^[8]
DIY	^[9]
Drowned in Sound	7/10^[10]
The Guardian	^[11]
The Independent	^[12]
musicOMH	^[13]
Paste	6.9/10^[14]
Pitchfork	7.1/10^[1]
Under the Radar	^[15]

Background

In an interview with Interview magazine, MØ was quoted saying, "I wrote all of the songs, and I'm attached to all of the songs. They all fit together, and I feel like they're telling a story.^[18] If I should name one that I think represents the album very nicely, then it's a song called "Pilgrim". It's very simple and strong in its message. Both production-wise and lyrically, it's very simple and minimalistic, but has some depth to it." The theme for the album is about being young, inexperienced, and being lost in this crazy society we live in these days.^[18] Further on the theme she extended, "When you're young and insecure, there's a lot of pressure to live up to these ideals, and it's impossible. It's hard to find your own way and navigate through. That's the theme of the album: to be young and searching." Her track "Pilgrim" was also featured in the Italian version of the advertisement of Armani's fragrance Acqua di Gioia.^[18] She noted that the song is wanting to escape the noise of society and just go somewhere private where you can listen to your own thoughts and figure out what you want to be.^[18] The track "Don't Wanna Dance" adheres to a collection of squelching synths and was released as a single in February 2014.^[18] GQ stated that the track "Walk This Way" has "grand vocals" and fantastically produced "dynamic", funky guitar riffs.^[19] MØ recorded the vocals for the album in her childhood bedroom.^[20][21]

Track listing

All lyrics written by Karen Marie Ørsted; all music composed by Ørsted and Ronni Vindahl; all tracks produced by Vindahl; except where noted.

Standard edition

No.	Title	Writer(s)	Producer(s)	Length
1.	"Fire Rides"	Karen Ørsted	Ronni Vindahl	3:27
2.	"Maiden"	Ørsted	Vindahl	3:45
3.	"Never Wanna Know"	Ørsted	Vindahl	4:13
4.	"Red in the Grey"	Ørsted	Vindahl	3:46
5.	"Pilgrim"	Ørsted	Vindahl	3:52
6.	"Don't Wanna Dance"	Ørsted Vindahl	Vindahl James Dring	3:15
7.	"Waste of Time"	Ørsted	Vindahl	3:35
8.	"Dust Is Gone"	Ørsted	Vindahl	3:49
9.	"XXX 88" (featuring Diplo)	Ørsted Diplo	Vindahl Diplo	3:41
10.	"Walk This Way"	Ørsted	Vindahl	3:42
11.	"Slow Love"	Ørsted	Vindahl	3:37
12.	"Glass"	Ørsted Vindahl August Fenger	Vindahl	3:16
Total length:				43:59

Deluxe edition bonus tracks

No.	Title	Writer(s)	Producer(s)	Length
13.	"No Mythologies to Follow"	Ørsted	Vindahl	3:42
14.	"Dummy Head"	Ørsted	Vindahl	3:29
15.	"The Sea"	Ørsted	Vindahl	3:39
16.	"Gone and Found"	Ørsted	Vindahl	4:56
17.	"Fire Rides" (Night Version)	Ørsted	Ørsted	3:28
18.	"Dust Is Gone" (Night Version)	Ørsted	Ørsted	4:15
19.	"Slow Love" (Night Version)	Ørsted	Ørsted	4:14
20.	"The Sea" (Night Version)	Ørsted	Ørsted	3:54
21.	"Album Track by Track" (video (iTunes Store only)			19:40
Total length:				94:50

Digital deluxe edition reissue bonus tracks

No.	Title	Writer(s)	Producer(s)	Length
21.	"Pilgrim" (MS MR Remix)	Ørsted	Vindahl Ørsted Fenger	2:53
22.	"Say You'll Be There"	Spice Girls Jonathan Buck Eliot Kennedy	Vindahl Ørsted Fenger	3:52
23.	"Album Track by Track" (video on iTunes Store only)			19:40
Total length:				101:35

Personnel

Credits adapted from the liner notes of No Mythologies to Follow.^[22]

• Karen Marie "MØ" Ørsted – vocals, artwork design
• Anders Bast – horn (track 9)
• Signe Bergmann – artwork design
• Thomas "Diplo" Pentz – production (track 9)
• James Dring – production (track 6)
• Thomas Edinger – horn (track 9)
• August "ELOQ" Fenger – drums (track 4); mixing, production (track 12)
• Peter Hammerton – mastering (tracks 16–19)
• Stuart Hawkes – mastering (tracks 6, 10)
• Jens Høll – additional photography
• Paul Logus – mastering (tracks 1–5, 7–9, 11–15, 20)
• Michael Patterson – mastering (tracks 1–5, 7–9, 11–15, 20); mixing (tracks 1–5, 7–9, 11–20)
• Anders Schumann – mastering (track 12)
• Thomas Skou – additional photography
• Thomas Sønderup – photography
• Ronni Vindahl – executive production, mixing, production

Charts

Weekly charts Chart (2014) Peak position Australian Hitseekers Albums (ARIA)^[23] 11 Belgian Albums (Ultratop Flanders)^[24] 107 Belgian Albums (Ultratop Wallonia)^[25] 83 Danish Albums (Hitlisten)^[26] 2 French Albums (SNEP)^[27] 161 Irish Albums (IRMA)^[28] 76 UK Albums (OCC)^[29] 58 US Heatseekers Albums (Billboard)^[30] 11

Year-end charts Chart (2014) Position Danish Albums (Hitlisten)^[31] 33 Chart (2015) Position Danish Albums (Hitlisten)^[32] 63

Certifications

Region	Certification	Certified units/sales
Denmark (IFPI Danmark)^[33]	Platinum	20,000^‡
^‡ Sales+streaming figures based on certification alone.

Release history

Region	Date	Format(s)	Edition(s)	Label	Ref.
Germany	7 March 2014	LP digital download	Deluxe	Sony	^[34]^[35]
Ireland		CD digital download	Standard	Chess Club RCA Victor	^[36]^[37]
		LP digital download	Deluxe		^[38]^[39]
United Kingdom	10 March 2014	CD digital download	Standard		^[40]^[41]
		LP digital download	Deluxe		^[42]^[43]
Denmark		CD	Standard	Sony	^[44]
		LP digital download	Deluxe		^[45]^[46]
France		CD digital download	Standard		^[47]^[48]
		LP digital download	Deluxe		^[49]^[50]
United States	11 March 2014	CD	Standard	RCA	^[51]
		Digital download	Standard deluxe		^[52]^[53]
Australia	14 March 2014	CD	Standard	Sony	^[54]
		Digital download	Standard deluxe		^[55]^[56]
Germany	21 March 2014	CD	Standard		^[57]
Australia	18 April 2014	Digital download	Deluxe (reissue)	Sony	^[58]
Denmark
Germany					^[59]
Ireland				Chess Club RCA Victor	^[60]
United Kingdom	21 April 2014				^[61]
France				Sony	^[62]

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