Extreme (Molly Nilsson album)

Regarding the album's title, Nilsson gave the following explanation:

I was thinking about the title Extreme right after I'd made Twenty Twenty. At the time, I just thought that it was kind of a fun title—a good working title to [remind myself to] be playful and not hold myself back. It turned into thinking of 'extremes' in this black-and-white, polarized society, and the struggles between all the different sides and all these different ways of thinking.^[1]

After the release of her previous album 2020, Nilsson went through a period of "creative depression".^[1] Extreme was then "largely written" in 2019 and "mainly recorded" in 2020.^[2]

Power has been noted as the central topic on Extreme.^[3][4] In the album's promotional material, label Night School Records wrote: "It's a record about power. About how to fight it, how to take it and how to share it."^[5]

"Absolute Power" was released as the album's first single on 12 October 2021, along with a music video.^[6] "Pompeii" was released as the album's second music video on 22 November 2021.^[7]

The album was released on vinyl, CD, and as a digital download.^[8]