Beabadoobee lines up Pylon for September and confirms first arena headline run
Beabadoobee has announced her fourth album, Pylon, will be released on 18 September via Dirty Hit and Interscope Records, with first single Sun Has Set out now alongside a new video.
The album is available to pre-order and pre-save now, with the new single arriving after a BBC Radio 1 Hottest Record premiere and interview earlier this week. Stream Sun Has Set and pre-order the album here: https://beabadoobee.ffm.to/pylon
Sun Has Set is a sharp introduction to a record that Beabadoobee says began life as a series of diary entries. “A lot of the songs on this record are things I wish I could have said to someone,” she says. “This song has a pretty tunnel vision – it’s like, I hate you. You’re gonna stay here and listen to how much I hate you, because I never got to say that.”
A more direct, heavier cut
Pylon is described as a 14-song record shaped by the kind of isolation and disconnect Laus says she has felt while touring over the past few years. The title nods to the electricity towers that line major roads, but it also fits the sound she’s pushing into here: distorted, forceful and closer to the classic grunge, Midwest emo and ‘90s radio rock she has long cited as touchstones.
The album also features a guest-heavy list of collaborators. Hayley Williams appears on Nothing To Prove, Brendan Yates of Turnstile turns up on Powerlines, while Evan Stephens Hall of Pinegrove, Chino Moreno of Deftones and Shane Moran of Title Fight also contribute. The 1975’s Matty Healy and George Daniel worked on Write Me A Letter.
The full track listing for Pylon is below:
- 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 Powerlines Tour heads for arenas
Beabadoobee will take the new material on the road this autumn and winter on The Powerlines Tour, her first headline arena run and biggest tour to date. The dates include New York’s Madison Square Garden, Los Angeles’ Kia Forum and London’s O2 Arena, with support from Wisp in the US, Canada and the UK, and Violet Grohl in Europe.
Fans who pre-order the album from Beabadoobee’s webstore will get access to the ticket pre-sale from Tuesday 30 June at 10am local time, with general sale following on Thursday 2 July at 10am local time. Tickets and full pre-sale information are available at www.beabadoobee.com/live.
The UK arena dates are:
- Sat 14 Nov – Glasgow, OVO Hydro
- Mon 16 Nov – Cardiff, Utilita Arena
- Tue 17 Nov – Manchester, AO Arena
- Wed 18 Nov – London, O2 Arena
