Beabadoobee is officially back — and more electric than ever. The singer-songwriter, whose real name is Beatrice Laus, has unveiled her new album Pylon, out September 18 via Dirty Hit and Interscope Records. The LP follows up 2024’s This Is How Tomorrow Moves, and marks the musician’s fourth album.
Pylon gets its name from the electricity towers and power lines that Laus would look towards when she was disconnected from her family and friends while on her latest tour, per a press release. It’s also a fitting title for an LP that may just be Laus’ most thrashing rock release yet.
To preview the high-voltage project, Laus has shared riff-heavy lead single “Sun Has Set.” The singer is relentless on the charged track, screaming “fuck that” to a past relationship against grunge-y guitars and distorted amps. “A lot of the songs on this record are things I wish I could have said to someone,” the singer-songwriter said in a press release. “This song has this petty 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.’”
Along with the single, Laus has shared a striking visual that matches the ferocity of the track. In the video, the musician trashes an apartment, gets out of a cop car, and runs through a field at golden hour with spindly pylons in the background. Laus’ partner and longtime visual collaborator Jake Erland directed the “Sun Has Set” video. Earlier this year, he also directed her standalone single “All I Did Was Dream of You.”
Pylon highlights some of Laus’ biggest rock influences across the 14-track record. Hayley Williams features vocals on “Nothing to Prove” and Turnstile’s Brendan Yates offers a verse on “Powerlines.” Meanwhile, Pinegrove’s Evan Stephens Hall, Deftones’ Chino Moreno, and Title Fight’s Shane Moran all make contributions on Pylon. Of course, longtime collaborators and labelmates Matty Healy and George Daniel also had a hand in the album, producing “Write Me a Letter.”
Laus will also be taking the songs on the road this fall with The Powerlines tour, her largest trek to date with some of her first-ever arena shows. Kicking off on Oct. 1, the musician will make stops at iconic venues like New York’s Madison Square Garden, Los Angeles’ The Kia Forum, and London’s The O2.
Pylon Tracklist
1. “Pylon”
2. “Sun Has Set”
3. “Estranged”
4. “Switchblade”
5. “Write Me a Letter”
6. “It’s Alright”
7. “In Motion”
8. “Memories”
9. “Nothing To Prove”
10. “Radio”
11. “Powerlines”
12. “Spark”
13. “Despite That”
14. “Satellite”
