beabadoobee's new song ‘Switchblade’ out now

beabadoobee today releases ‘Switchblade,’ the second song to be lifted from her hugely anticipated forthcoming album Pylon, a record that’s more wide-ranging and complex than anything that she has ever put out—a tannic rock record that is, at various points, angry, lonesome, ecstatic, depressed and deeply, pathologically in love. ‘Switchblade’ takes its central metaphor and pulls it apart thoroughly, wondering whether “self-defence is to be brave/Do you start the fight/Or take the flight?” The song has no clear answers, with Laus emphatically past the point in which she thought she could ever have everything figured out. Listen / buy ‘Switchblade’ […]... Keep on reading: beabadoobee's new song ‘Switchblade’ out now