Suki Waterhouse has always written from a deeply personal place, but Loveland — her third studio album, out 10th July via Island Records — sounds like it’s coming from somewhere more complicated and more honest than anything she’s done before. The album grapples with the distance between a former self who felt most alive in romance and momentum, and a present self reaching for something steadier. Motherhood sits at the centre of that shift, and the strange feeling of becoming someone new while still carrying the shape of who you were.
“Loveland to me lives in the distance between a former self who felt most alive in romance, fantasy and momentum, and a present self reaching for something steadier, more intimate and more true,” she says. “That split is deepened by motherhood, and by the strange feeling of becoming someone new while still carrying the shape of who you were before.”
Across fourteen co-written tracks, the album navigates that tension with the kind of craft you’d expect from a room that includes Aaron Dessner, Joel Little, Amy Allen, Dan Wilson, and her longtime collaborators Jules Apollinaire and Natalie Findlay. That’s a formidable list, and the early signs suggest the material matches it. Lead single Back in Love — already out — drew praise from Harper’s Bazaar, who called it a super joyful track made for late summer nights, and NYLON, who highlighted the grand, luscious instrumentation that builds a world perfectly supporting her self-respecting, life-affirming lyrics. New single Tiny Raisin follows this Friday, offering another glimpse into where Loveland is headed.
It arrives on the back of considerable momentum. Memoir of a Sparklemuffin, her 2024 sophomore album, earned widespread critical acclaim — Interview Magazine called it her most vulnerable body of work yet, the Los Angeles Times said she sparkles and shines, and SPIN hailed it as an important milestone cementing her as an artist with a presence as enigmatic as it is captivating. Before that, Good Looking surged to nearly a billion streams and earned RIAA platinum certification, and she’s since racked up over 1.5 billion global streams across her catalogue. Lollapalooza this summer will offer the first chance to hear Loveland live, with further tour dates expected to follow.
Loveland is out 10th July.
0 Comments