Dublin’s Pillow Queens have been building serious momentum since the release of their 2017 debut EP Calm Girls – selling out shows in their native Ireland, supporting artists like IDLES, Pussy Riot and Future Islands, and earning enthusiastic support in the UK before independently releasing their 2020 debut LP In Waiting.
The album was a major breakthrough for the band, and a sleeper hit amongst music fans, scoring praise across US, UK and Irish media – notably from The Guardian who called them “2020’s most exciting indie-rockers”, along with multiple A-list spots on the BBC 6 Music playlist – a RTÉ Choice Music Prize nomination for Irish Album Of The Year, and perhaps most remarkably of all a US national television appearance on The Late Late Show with James Corden.
The band are returning to announce their second LP Leave The Light On, which is due out April 1st on Royal Mountain Records, and are sharing the first single from the new album, a track called “Be By Your Side”.
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Leave The Light On album tracklist
1. Be By Your Side 2. The Wedding Band 3. Hearts & Minds 4. House That Sailed Away 5. Delivered 6. Well Kept Wife 7. No Good Woman 8. Historian 9. My Body Moves 10. Try Try Try
"This song is about the mechanisms that are used to hide your vulnerabilities and carry on," explains singer / bassist Pamela Connolly. "But also, the feeling of being about to burst and how cathartic it could be to allow yourself to let your emotions out and feel the world around you. This was one of the first songs we finished on the album as it was the quickest to become fully realized by all of us."
The album announcement coincides with the announcement of the band’s first North American tour, which will include a stop at SXSW before the band return to the UK in May and their native Ireland in October. Full live routing can be found below, with tickets available here.
March 9th – Kilkenny, Ireland @ Set Theatre (Sold out) March 10th – Galway, Ireland @ Roisin Dubh (Sold out) March 11th – Dublin, Ireland @ Button Factory (Sold out) March 12th – Dublin, Ireland @ Button Factory (Sold out)
March 14th – SXSW March 15th – SXSW March 16th – SXSW March 17th – SXSW March 18th – SXSW March 19th – SXSW
March 23rd – Santa Ana, CA @ Constellation Room March 24th – Los Angeles, CA @ Moroccan Lounge March 25th – San Francisco, CA @ The Chapel SF March 27th – Seattle, WA @ Clock-out Lounge March 29th – Vancouver, BC @ Wise Hall March 30th – Portland, OR @ Mississippi Studios April 1st – Salt Lake City, UT @ Kilby Court April 2nd – Denver, CO @ Hi-Dive April 4th – Omaha, NE @ Slowdown Jr. April 6th – Saint Paul, MN @ Turf Club April 7th – Chicago, IL @ Empty Bottle April 9th – Toronto, ON @ Horseshoe Tavern April 11th – Washington, DC @ Songbyrd April 12th – Philadelphia, PA @ Johnny Brenda’s April 14th – New York, NY @ The Mercury Lounge April 15th – Boston, MA @ Brighton Music Hall
May 3rd – Leeds, UK @ Brudenell Social Club May 5th – Manchester, UK @ Gorilla May 6th – Glasgow, Scotland @ Stereo May 7th – Newcastle, UK @ Cluny May 10th – Brighton, UK @ Chalk May 11th – London, UK @ Scala May 12th – Birmingham, UK @ The Castle and Falcon May 13th – Bristol, UK @ Thekla
June 12th Berlin, Germany @ Tempelhof Festival July 2nd – Gdynia, Poland @ Open’er Festival October 1st – Dublin, Ireland @ Vicar St. October 2nd – Dublin, Ireland @ Vicar St. October 7th – Limerick, Ireland @ Dolan’s October 8th – Cork, Ireland @ Cyprus Avenue October 14th – Belfast, Ireland @ The Empire October 15th – Galway, Ireland @ The Roisin Dubh October 16th – Galway, Ireland @ The Roisin Dubh October 20th – Kilkenny, Ireland @ The Set Theatre