beabadoobee today releases, ‘Memories’, the latest song to be lifted from her hugely anticipated forthcoming album, Pylon, due for release on September 18 via Dirty Hit / Interscope Records.
Bea describes ‘Memories’ as “one of the happiest songs on the album,” but one where she falls deep into a spiral of romanticising bygone moments, “clinging onto ideas that should make me happy but actually make me feel sad, because I wish they were just moments I lived in forever.”
The song is indicative of the raw and sometimes uncomfortably real songwriting on Pylon, a record that’s 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. Laus, who poured her life into songs as a teenager for the world to hear, says the album is 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 f**k.”
Listen to ‘Memories’ on F1 Tracks.
beabadoobee recently gave ‘Memories’ its live debut during a short run of US shows that included talked-about performances at Lollapalooza and Hinterland festivals, as well as a headline show at the legendary Red Rocks Amphitheatre. The track follows ‘Switchblade’ and the album’s first single ‘Sun Has Set’, released to universal acclaim last month alongside a striking first-person video directed by Bea’s partner and longtime visual collaborator, Jake Erland.
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 NME’s Radar award, whilst amassing over 10 billion streams worldwide and more than 12 million followers across her social channels. Pylon is the follow-up to her first UK #1 album, 2024’s This Is How Tomorrow Moves.
Bea returns to North America in October to kick off the Powerlines Tour, her first ever arena shows and biggest tour to date, taking in shows across the continent, as well as the UK and Europe this autumn-winter. The Powerlines Tour promoted by Live Nation kicks off 1 October and includes stops at Madison Square Garden, The Kia Forum, The O2 Arena and more.
