beabadoobee announces fourth album Pylon, out September 18 via Dirty Hit and Interscope, with lead single Sun Has Set and her first-ever arena tour
beabadoobee announced Pylon, her fourth studio album, on June 24, 2026, with a release date of September 18 via Dirty Hit and Interscope Records. The announcement arrived alongside lead single “Sun Has Set“ and confirmation of The Powerlines Tour, her first-ever run of arena shows and the biggest headline tour of her career to date.
The 14-track album follows This Is How Tomorrow Moves, which became Beatrice Laus’ first UK Number One album in 2024 after Fake It Flowers reached Number 8 in 2020 and Beatopia in 2022. Pylon represents a significant sonic pivot, leaning into grunge, midwest emo, and 90s radio rock with a distortion-soaked intensity that previous beabadoobee records have only hinted at.
The album’s title carries a dual meaning that Laus explained directly. Pylon is named after the steel electricity towers that line highways and city edges worldwide, structures that came to symbolize her connection to friends and family back home during years of relentless touring and the isolation that comes with it.
“What if I’m always going to be this way? What if life is just pylon after pylon on the road?” she has said, framing the title as both a literal image from her touring life and a metaphor for the repetitive anxieties of her mid-twenties.
Writing to Instagram about the record, Laus said it was “made and written in between tours and on tour, i missed home, i missed how people were and im still learning to accept the confusion within the uncertainty of being away.”
‘Sun Has Set’ and the All-Star Collaborator List
“Sun Has Set” introduces Pylon’s emotional register precisely: spiky guitars, a tumbling 90s alt-rock vocal delivery, and a confessional bluntness that Laus has described as material she once thought she would never say out loud.
A lot of the songs on this record are things I wish I could have said to someone,” she says. “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”
The accompanying video was directed by Jake Erland, Laus’ partner and longtime visual collaborator, shot in a striking first-person perspective.
Pylon’s collaborator list is the kind of roster that confirms how much goodwill Laus has built across her career. Hayley Williams sings on “Nothing To Prove.” Turnstile’s Brendan Yates contributes a verse to “Powerlines.” Pinegrove’s Evan Stephens Hall, Deftones’ Chino Moreno, and Title Fight’s Shane Moran all appear across the tracklist, while Matty Healy and George Daniel of The 1975, Laus’ longtime Dirty Hit labelmates, produced “Write Me A Letter.” That combination of grunge, midwest emo, and post-hardcore lineage reads as a direct map of the influences shaping Pylon’s heavier sound.
The Powerlines Tour and What Arena Shows Mean for beabadoobee
The Powerlines Tour kicks off October 1 at Mohegan Sun Arena in Uncasville, Connecticut, and runs through North America before crossing to the UK and Europe in November and December. Major stops include Madison Square Garden in New York on October 5, The Kia Forum in Los Angeles, Scotiabank Arena in Toronto, and The O2 in London on November 18, with the European leg closing December 7 in Düsseldorf. Support comes from Wisp across the US, Canada, and UK dates, and Violet Grohl for the France, Netherlands, Belgium, and Germany shows. Artist presale begins June 29 at 10am local time, with general on-sale following July 2 at 10am local.
The tour announcement arrives on the back of a year that has already included Lollapalooza in Chicago on August 2, Red Rocks Amphitheatre in Colorado on August 7, and the March single “All I Did Was Dream Of You” with The Marías. For an artist whose career has moved steadily from bedroom-pop curiosity to a UK Number One album, Pylon and the arena scale of The Powerlines Tour represent the clearest evidence yet that beabadoobee has fully arrived at the next tier.
