Acclaimed Irish indie rock band Pillow Queens have announced their third studio album, Name Your Sorrow, and details of their biggest show to date at Iveagh Gardens this summer.
Due out on 19 April, the new album, "finds the group at their most vulnerable and self-assured as they explore themes of queerness, insecurity, desire and heartbreak as well as the positivity and strength that can grow from pain".
The band have also shared new song Gone and will play Ireland's Iveagh Gardens, Dublin on 13 July.
Speaking about Name Your Sorrow, the band's lead guitarist and vocalist Cathy McGuinness says, "It is about stages of love, loss and grief and how they can all exist alongside one another–intertwined, messy, beautiful–how both love and loss can coexist."
The fourpiece recorded the new album in the Irish countryside and credit Irish poet Eavan Boland, John Keats, and C.S. Lewis among their literary inspirations during the writing process, while the musical influences range from Vampire Weekend to Barbara Streisand to Frank Ocean, Tool and Lana Del Rey.
Formed in 2016, Pillow Queens are Pamela Connolly (lead vocals, guitar, bass), Sarah Corcoran (vocals, guitar, bass), Cathy McGuinness (vocals, lead guitar) and Rachel Lyons (vocals, drums).
They released their debut album, In Waiting, in 2020 and it received an RTÉ Choice Prize Irish Album of The Year nomination. The band also made their first US national television appearance remotely on the Late Late Show with James Corden.
The band went on to tour North America, UK and Europe, play at SXSW and open for IDLES, Pavement, and later, Phoebe Bridgers in Glasgow.
They released their second album Leave The Light On in 2022.
Name Your Sorrow tracklist: February 8th, Suffer, Like A Lesson, Blew Up The World, Friend Of Mine, The Bar's Closed, So Kind, Heavy Pour, One Night, Love II, Notes On Worth.
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