beabadoobee Releases ‘Memories’ From Upcoming Album ‘Pylon’
The track explores the uneasy pull of looking back on happier moments.
beabadoobee has released “Memories,” the latest song from her forthcoming album Pylon. Pylon is due September 18, 2026, via Dirty Hit/Interscope Records.
Bea describes “Memories” as “one of the happiest songs on the album,” though its subject is less straightforward than that description suggests. The song centers on the habit of romanticizing the past and holding onto moments that once felt comforting. Laus describes herself as “clinging onto ideas that should make me happy but actually make me feel sad,” because those memories cannot be made permanent. Rather than treating nostalgia as simple comfort, the song focuses on the point where remembering something fondly becomes painful because the moment itself is already over.
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Across Pylon, Laus moves through a broader emotional range, touching on anger, loneliness, exhilaration, depression, and intense romantic attachment. The album presents some of her most exposed songwriting to date. Much of the writing took shape while she was alone in hotel rooms. Laus said the process “reminded me a lot of how I wrote songs at 17, alone in my bedroom,” recalling the circumstances in which she first began putting her life into songs.
beabadoobee recently gave “Memories” its live debut during a short run of U.S. shows that included Lollapalooza, Hinterland, and a headline performance at Red Rocks Amphitheatre. The Powerlines World Tour begins October 1 and will mark beabadoobee’s first arena shows and biggest tour to date, with dates scheduled across North America before continuing through the UK and Europe in the fall and winter. Promoted by Live Nation, The Powerlines World Tour includes stops at Madison Square Garden, the Kia Forum, and The O2 Arena.
