Katy Kirby has announced her sophomore album Blue Raspberry, out January 26th, 2024 via ANTI-. The announcement arrives with the record’s latest single “Table,” as well as a new run of 2024 tour dates to celebrate its release.
Blue Raspberry largely documents Kirby’s process of recognizing her own queerness, and the subsequent, bittersweet ache of her first queer relationship. “This record is much more personal than I intended it to be,” Kirby said in a press release. “I was in a period of experimenting with how I write, and what came out was a song about a woman, about an imagined her — I didn’t think I was writing as or about myself, but these kinds of songs kept coming out, with fragments of overlapping lyrics linking them together like beads on a string. They seemed to inhabit the same world.”
“Table” sees Kirby branch out from the the folksy rock of her debut album Cool Dry Place, pairing her penchant for sticky melodies with slowcore-inspired leaden guitars. “[‘Table’ is] a thematic outlier on this record, and more of a lighthearted leftover from my god-haunted past lift,” Kirby added. “t’s the last on the album and sort of serves as an epilogue or outro for the rest of the songs. Most importantly it’s quite fun to sing.”
Kirby’s tour dates begin in Washington, DC on February 3rd, going across the US before the finale at New York City’s Bowery Ballroom on March 8th. Tickets go on sale Friday, October 27th at 10:00 a.m. local time via Ticketmaster.
Watch the music video for “Table” below, and then keep scrolling to see the details for Blue Raspberry as well as Kirby’s 2024 tour dates.
Kirby returned earlier this year with the single “Cubic Zirconia.”
Blue Raspberry Artwork:
Blue Raspberry Tracklist:
01. Redemption Arc
02. Fences
03. Cubic Zirconia
04. Hand to Hand
05. Wait Listen
06. Drop Dead
07. Party of the Century
08. Alexandria
09. Salt Crystal
10. Blue Raspberry
11. Table
Katy Kirby 2024 Tour Dates:
02/03 – Washington, DC @ Songbyrd
02/04 – Carrboro, NC @ Cat’s Cradle – Back Room
02/05 – Asheville, NC @ Eulogy
02/07 – Nashville, TN @ The Blue Room at Third Man Records
02/08 – Atlanta, GA @ The Masquerade – Purgatory
02/09 – Jackson, MS @ Hal & Mal’s
02/11 – Dallas, TX @ Sons of Hermann Hall
02/13 – Austin, TX @ The Ballroom
02/15 – Tucson, AZ @ Club Congress
02/16 – Santa Ana, CA @ Constellation Room
02/17 – West Hollywood, CA @ The Roxy Theatre
02/18 – San Francisco, CA @ Rickshaw Stop
02/19 – Sacramento, CA @ Goldfield Trading Post
02/21 – Portland, OR @ Polaris Hall
02/22 – Seattle, WA @ Barboza
02/24 – Boise, ID @ Shrine Basement
02/25 – Salt Lake City, UT @ Kilby Court
02/27 – Denver, CO @ Hi Dive
02/29 – Omaha, NE @ Reverb Lounge
03/01 – Minneapolis, MN @ 7th St. Entry
03/02 – Madison, WI @ High Noon Saloon
03/03 – Chicago, IL @ Lincoln Hall
03/05 – Detroit, MI @ The Sanctuary
03/06 – Pittsburgh, PA @ The Warhol Entrance Space
03/07 – Philadelphia, PA @ Johnny Brenda’s
03/08 – New York, NY @ Bowery Ballroom
