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She’s the Grammy-winning producer, songwriter, and performer who has worked with Tyler, The Creator, CASISDEAD, Skream and Skrillex and sold millions of records across the globe. Today, La Roux releases her long-awaited fourth album “Old Flames” on Vertigo Records. The album release follows an extensive world tour supporting Hilary Duff, warming her up for her own EU & North American headline tour commencing in January 2027 and concluding with hometown victory lap at Electric Brixton on March 24th.
Composed, written, produced, and arranged by La Roux, “Old Flames” is a self-possessed statement from an artist who finds power in candour and imagination. Across the album, she confronts the collapse of a 17-year relationship, the ache of forbidden love, the loneliness of addiction and the struggle to reconcile sexuality and identity beneath the glare of public scrutiny. It’s nostalgic, immersive, future facing and completely and utterly true to La Roux.
Sharing her vision for the album, La Roux says: “This record says things how they are: how I am and who I am. It’s been a process of admitting what I got wrong through telling these tales and coming to terms with where I am now. “Old Flames” is essentially me processing why I’ve behaved the way that I have and saying goodbye to it. It’s a farewell to that way of behaving in love and life. And in music too.”
The album release is accompanied by focus track ‘Night Vision’, a homage to Mariah Carey’s ‘Heartbreaker’ with its pitched down vocal recalling the classic duet. It’s a track of confession and vulnerability, falling in love with a fantasy at a distance: “Not a lot of face time / So I’ve imagined a version of you in my mind and I’m stumbling blind / Oh and I wanna know if I’m wasting my time”.
The release follows ‘Lose Myself’ which channels the frenetic drama of mid-90s Michael Jackson ‘Earth Song’ and the Janet duet ‘Scream’ as La Roux reflects on years of weed dependency – something she now recognises – following an AuADHD diagnosis, as self-medication. ‘I wanted you so much, your love just keeps me holding on, and now I want to leave, just come and beam me up’. ‘Lose Myself’ reads like a love song but its yearning is chemical. The tension between escape and entrapment pulses throughout.
She began this bold new chapter with ‘Cabin Fever’ which was inspired by isolation, her jeep and summertime rain, but with ‘Babyline’ – a sun-soaked masterclass in pop music – is where La Roux ended up and continues to be: happier, lighter, braver.
Meticulously crafted yet free of excess, “Old Flames” is a deeply considered offering rich in meaning and ideas, without feeling overworked. It’s a triumphant return from a multi-award-winning composer who sold over two million albums in the US alone after redefining the DNA of pop music with her self-titled debut album in 2009. She went on to work with some of the world’s most influential musicians; DnB frontrunner Zinc reworked ‘Bulletproof’, while dubstep pioneer Skream and GRAMMY winner Skrillex both remixed ‘In For The Kill’; going on to work with Skream on his second album, 2010’s “Outside The Box”.
In 2019, she featured alongside guests including Solange and Lil Uzi Vert on Tyler, The Creator’s boundary-breaking album “Igor”. The following year, Tyler remixed La Roux’s ‘Automatic Driver’ from her third album, “Supervision”. In 2021, she worked with reclusive rapper CASISDEAD on ‘Park Assist’, featuring alongside the BRIT winner in the video directed by Deadpool baddie Ed Skrien. Her work continues to inspire and influence other artists; French Montana, Tion Wayne, Mavado and Major Lazer are just some of the acts who have sampled La Roux’s work.
Building on a remarkable legacy, “Old Flames” marks an artist who continues to inspire, surprise and evolve.
Please see tour routing for 2027 below across the UK and Europe.
TOUR DATES EUROPE/UK
