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Baby Queen has announced her second album.<\/p>\n
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The follow-up to 2023’s ‘Quarter Life Crisis’ is titled ‘I Hope You Don\u2019t Remember Me’ and will arrive on July 24 via Insanity Records. Wanting a new creative direction, the South African singer-songwriter, whose real name is Bella Latham, travelled to Los Angeles to work with producer Alex Casnoff, with the resulting album featuring live instrumentation and synths, and bassist Michael Shuman (Queens of the Stone Age)\u00a0and drummer Carla Azar (PJ Harvey and Jack White) forming the rhythm section.<\/p>\n
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Written during a difficult emotional period, the album shifts away from politics, focusing on heartbreak and personal reflection,\u00a0and will include Baby Queen’s earlier singles\u00a0Word Vomit, Feel Something\u00a0and the title track. Latham said:<\/p>\n
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“This is a story about love, rejection, ego and shame told by an unreliable narrator whose understanding of love is warped.<\/p>\n
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“When I began writing for this album, I was determined to be as present as possible which meant putting down any notion of the type of song I should be creating, and simply trusting that what naturally came out of me, was what was meant for me.<\/p>\n
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“The songs I wrote seemed to reveal more about me than about the people or relationships I was writing about.<\/p>\n
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“A spotlight was shone into corners of myself I hadn’t looked at in a long time. Truths I had long been trying to avoid became, through the experiences I was detailing and the process of writing about them, unavoidable.<\/p>\n
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“The album is an emotional journey from a type of beginning to a type of end; an almost real-time description of a behavioural pattern, but in my mind (and I think on the album too), the story remains quite unresolved.”<\/p>\n
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As a further preview, Baby Queen has shared a new single, Permanently Obsessed, an alt-pop\u00a0response to famous ballads about the fear of being forgotten. Latham said: “I have long had a habit of idealizing a lover; turning them into a mythological creature sent to mirror my redeeming features and answer my many unanswerable questions, which is really just another form of self-avoidance and self-protection. This song is about a recurring pattern in my own behaviour that renders the identity of the lover redundant; something unhealed within me that yearns to recreate a particular dynamic.”<\/p>\n
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Baby Queen has also scheduled a run of in-store shows across the UK for next month. Tickets are on sale now.<\/p>\n
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‘I Hope You Don’t Remember Me’ tracklist:<\/p>\n
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1. Abigail
\n2. Feel Something
\n3. Permanently Obsessed
\n4. That\u2019s Fine
\n5. Word Vomit
\n6. Minding The Explanatory Gap
\n7. The Protagonist
\n8. Spite
\n9. Tongue-Tied
\n10. Bored Out Of My Mind
\n11. I Hope You Don\u2019t Remember Me<\/p>\n
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Baby Queen Upcoming Tour Dates are as follows<\/p>\n
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\nTue July 21 2026 – OXFORD Truck
\nWed July 22 2026 – LONDON Rough Trade East
\nThu July 23 2026 – BRIGHTON Resident
\nFri July 24 2026 – KINGSTON Banquet
\nSat July 25 2026 – BRISTOL Rough Trade
\nMon July 27 2026 – BURY Wax and Beans
\nTue July 28 2026 – LIVERPOOL Rough Trade
\nWed July 29 2026 – LEEDS Crash
\nThu July 30 2026 – NOTTINGHAM Rough Trade
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