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PYLON // NEW ALBUM // OUT NOW
WRITE ME A LETTER // NEW SINGLE
NORTH AMERICA, UK & EU ARENA TOUR
Beabadoobee has released her hugely anticipated and already-acclaimed new album Pylon, available to stream and buy in digital, CD and vinyl formats via Dirty Hit and Interscope Records. Pylon, the follow up to beabadoobee’s UK #1 record This Is How Tomorrow Moves, is an album that is more wide-ranging and complex than anything that she has ever put out – a tannic rock record that is, at various points, angry, lonesome, ecstatic, depressed and deeply, pathologically in love.
The album is heralded by new single Write Me A Letter, a thrumming indie-rock track featuring production work from Beatrice Laus’ longtime collaborators and labelmates Matty Healy and George Daniel of The 1975. The song, says Laus, is about “seeing my fault in situations but also admitting things that I would be too embarrassed to say out loud”. Write Me a Letter is the kind of song she needed to, not wanted, to get out and this album proved the perfect vessel.
Listen / buy ‘Write Me A Letter’
“I had to write these songs on tour or between tours because I had to understand what was going on in my head,” she says. “It’s this idea of letting go and accepting change. When I was on tour, I was yearning for something, and it made me think: How do I make myself feel comfortable? What does it mean to grow up? I was just missing how things were.”
The songs here, including the singles Sun Has Set, Switchblade and Memories, are raw and sometimes uncomfortably real, recalling the teenager who poured her life into songs for the world to hear. She says it’s the result of writing alone in hotel rooms, which “reminded me a lot of how I wrote songs at 17, alone in my bedroom, feeling sad as fuck”.
PYLON LP | TRACK LIST
- Pylon
- Sun Has Set
- Estranged
- Switchblade
- Write Me A Letter
- It’s Alright
- In Motion
- Memories
- Nothing To Prove
- Radio
- Powerlines
- Spark
- Despite That
- Satellite
The album features contributions from a host of artists that the teenage Bea could then only dream of collaborating with, but now finds as peers, including Hayley Williams of Paramore, Brendan Yates of Turnstile, Evan Stephens Hall of Pinegrove, Chino Moreno of Deftones and Shane Moran of Title Fight.
But there are no clear answers, and that’s the point – Laus is, emphatically, past the time in which she thought she could ever have everything figured out. Pylon, for all its turbulent emotions, celebrates that not knowing: its brilliance suggests that sitting with uncertainty can create something immense.
Beabadoobee returns to the live stage in October to begin The Powerlines Tour in North America for her first ever headline arena shows and her biggest tour to date, taking in shows throughout the continent before coming to the UK and Europe this autumn and winter. The tour includes stops at Madison Square Garden, The Kia Forum, London O2 Arena and many more. UK dates as follows:
NOVEMBER
Sat 14 GLASGOW OVO Hydro
Mon 16 CARDIFF Utilita Arena
Tue 17 MANCHESTER AO Arena
Wed 18 LONDON O2 Arena
Tickets: www.beabadoobee.com/live
Born in the Philippines and raised in London, Beatrice Laus emerged as a British alternative music icon across three acclaimed albums and five EPs. She has garnered multiple BRIT Award and BBC Sound Of nominations and won the NME Radar Award, whilst amassing over 10 billion streams worldwide and more than 12 million followers across her social channels.
This Is How Tomorrow Moves became her first record to reach number 1 on the UK Official Album Chart in 2024, following her Top 10 albums Fake It Flowers (#8) in 2020 and Beatopia (#4) in 2022. Earlier this year, beabadoobee released the one-off single All I Did Was Dream Of You, teaming up with Grammy nominated best New Artist The Marias, the result of a longtime mutual creative admiration between Maria Zardoya and Bea.
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