Tove Lo has announcer her new album, Estrus.
The Swedish pop icon will drop her latest record on September 18th, with lead single “I’m Your Girl Right” set for release this Wednesday (May 13th).
In an announcement post on social media, Lo explained the meaning behind her album’s title.
“Estrus is an animal in heat. It’s primal, contradicting emotional chaos,” she wrote. “It’s my mind and my body wanting different things, wanting everything.”
Anyone looking for life lessons or advice from Lo will not find it on this record. “There’s no good advice on this album… just a lot of feelings, no solutions.”
Rolling Stone AU/NZ caught up with the singer ahead of her album announcement, and she told us that she “realised a few things” while making Estrus.
“I’m a grown woman now, and I feel like I’m being told that my time to be messy, make mistakes… the time for self-exploration is up. I’m supposed to have all the answers, I’m supposed to know what to do,” she said.
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“I don’t vibe with it at all, it’s not where I am at all in my life. I don’t know what the fuck I’m doing! It’s written from a place of inner conflict. There’s a lot of contradictions and the feeling that yes, I’ve learned a lot, I’ve lived a lot, but I feel confident in myself.”
Elsewhere in the interview, Lo expressed her admiration for her fellow Swedish pop icon Robyn.
“Robyn has always been my number one inspiration. She, to me, is a pop artist with so much integrity,” Lo told us. “She has so much taste. I’m always so impressed with what she’s doing, I love her new album [Sexistential]. It’s so amazing.
“I feel that these alternative pop girls and women who are coming through, throwing out the rulebook… it feels very much that we are controlling the space now.”
Read our full interview with Lo here.
