New York, NY (Top40 Charts) Check out the fourth full-length studio album 'Sunshine Kitty' [Island Records] from global pop-artist Tove Lo. 'Sunshine Kitty" is a 15-track collection of empowered and enigmatic pop gems, out in the world and joining her already growing catalog of Golden Globe® Award-nominated and GRAMMY Award-nominated multiplatinum hits.
"My fourth album in five years, feels really surreal. It's my best one yet.
Sunshine Kitty tells some of my teenage love stories, current infatuation and future fears.
Almost like a scrap book. I'm so proud and grateful to all of the features, producers and co-writers. Everyone was down to enter the pop weirdness and experiment! I think the best way to describe this whole album is just that it's like me - I don't think, I just do. And that's what I did."
Tove Lo reveals.
Alongside her highly anticipated full-length release, featuring a top-rated cast of collaborators and guests including Kylie Minogue, Jax Jones, ALMA, MC Zaac,
Doja Cat and the single 'Sweettalk my Heart.' On the Inspiration for the song, Tove explains "Sweettalk my
Heart is weirdly my happy love song. In a way I'm asking the person I love to lie to me; promise things we both know we can't know if we can keep. Because nobody knows the future. But it's about believing what you're both feeling in the present - that you'll love each other forever. It might be naive, but I think that's good. Being realistic about love makes it impossible to fully feel it."
'Sunshine Kitty' was recorded between Los Angeles and Sweden, and represents a new chapter for Tove, marked by a reclamation of confidence, hard-earned wisdom, more time, and a budding romance. Inspired by an episode of Girls, the title shares its name with an accompanying animated Lynx-"Lo" in Swedish-who joins Tove on this trip. The title is "a play on pussy power, but it's a happy, positive way of seeing it,"
Tove Lo states. "It ties in with the lynx. This cartoon cat (featured on the artwork) is an extension of me and part of the new music. She's super cute, but she does stupid s like getting in fights and getting fed up. It's how I feel the album sounds."
Having re-teamed with "
Habits (Stay High)" and "
Talking Body" collaborators Jakob Jerlström and Ludvig Söderberg, they "took time like we used to, got drunk in the studio, and experimented with different sounds we hadn't tried before." This experimentation widened the scope of her signature style as evidenced by the lead single "Glad He's Gone." Delicately plucked acoustic guitar entwines with her devilishly angelic delivery before Tove locks into an eyebrow-raising call-and-response with herself.
Meanwhile, lustrous piano underscores the sunny cadence of "Sweettalk my Heart" where she gleefully accepts, "the lies a lover tells you that you both want to believe." Eighties-esque keys drone through the nostalgic "Bad as the Boys" as it recalls, "Realizing my first crush on a girl." Glistening neon production and Latin rhythms grind on the club-ready "Are U gonna tell her?" as she admits, "our bodies tingle tight in the purple light, we're making love passed out, we look so damn good tonight."
Sunshine Kitty flexes from the hypnotic assurance of "Anywhere u go" to the wild Euro dance elation of "Jacques," which proves, "I still like to rave."
In the end, Tove Lo's imagination offers the ultimate escape. "When my music makes fans free, there's nothing better," she leaves off. "Feel free to be sad, happy, or escape for a minute. I hope you can play this when you're driving and need to let your feelings out. Or, you can put it on and cry into your headphones. Maybe you blast it to dance everything off. Whenever you need an outlet, I'm here."
On February 3, 2020,
Tove Lo will kick-off her North American headlining SUNSHINE KITTY TOUR. ALMA will be direct support for the entire tour with very special guests BROODS joining the line-up in San Francisco and Los Angeles. Tickets are on-sale now. Following her North American run, in March,
Tove Lo will head off to the UK and
Europe for a string of headline shows, with support from
Millie Turner, concluding with a hometown show in Stockholm. For a full list of dates, see below. For tickets and more information, go to: https://tove-lo.com/tour
NORTH AMERICAN TOUR
02/03 - Marathon
Music Works - Nashville, TN*
02/05 - Tabernacle - Atlanta, GA*
02/06 - The Ritz - Raleigh, NC*
02/07 - The Fillmore -
Silver Spring, MD*
02/09 - The Fillmore - Philadelphia, PA*
02/10 - House of Blues - Boston, MA*
02/12 - Brooklyn Steel - Brooklyn, NY*
02/15 -
Corona Theatre - Montreal, QC*
02/16 -
Queen Elizabeth Theatre - Toronto, ON*
02/18 - St. Andrew's Hall - Detroit, MI*
02/19 - Riviera Theatre - Chicago, IL*
02/20 - Palace Theatre - St. Paul, MN*
02/23 - Vogue theatre - Vancouver, BC*
02/24 - Showbox SODO - Seattle, WA*
02/25 - Roseland Theater - Portland, OR*
02/27 - The Masonic - San Francisco, CA*^
02/28 - Hollywood Palladium - Los Angeles, CA*^
* w/ ALMA
^ w/ ALMA & BROODS
