9/06/2024

Empress Of announces 'For Your Consideration (Deluxe Part 1)' + shares Maffalda remix feat. Urias

EMPRESS OF ANNOUNCES FOR YOUR CONSIDERATION (DELUXE PART 1) DUE SEPT 13TH VIA GIANT MUSIC


SHARES "FEMENINE" FEAT. URIAS (MAFFALDA REMIX)


HEADING ON HEADLINE NORTH AMERICAN TOUR THIS FALL

Empress Of by Kaio Cesar Oliveira


What the press is saying about Empress Of:


"Rodriguez dials into an insatiable new groove, reprising an effusive, sensual point of view" 

Pitchfork ‘Best New Music’


"Arguably her greatest work yet"

Elle Magazine 


“Call this her auteur era”

Rolling Stone


"She’s working with the right people, she’s covering topics and themes that really resonate and she’s doing it with irrepressible energy”

NPR


For Your Consideration (Deluxe Pt. 1)

PRE-SAVE/ORDER: https://found.ee/FYCDeluxe


“Femenine” feat. Urias (Maffalda Remix)

https://found.ee/FemenineRemix


(September 6th, 2024) - Today, Empress Of announces For Your Consideration (Deluxe Part 1) due September 13th, a remix version of her critically acclaimed album For Your Consideration released this past March via Giant Music. To celebrate the project’s imminent arrival next week, the artist shares a first taste of the deluxe bundle with a Maffalda remix of album track “Femenine” featuring futurist Brazilian artist Urias. The result is a blistering hot take on the infectious banger that as Harper’s Bazaar noted, “mirrors exactly where [Empress Of is] at – empowered, embodied, wholly realized,” while expanding on the artist’s expert world-building and commanding auteurship. 


For Your Consideration, a follow-up to 2020’s I’m Your Empress Of and 2022’s Save Me EP, is a bi-lingual album that embraces camp and fantasy playing with the idea of Hollywood. Lorely wrote the album in LA, Miami, and Montreal, and worked with a collection of songwriters and producers, including Nick León, Billboard, Valley Girls, Cecile Believe, and Umru. The album sees Empress Of taking on the role of executive producer. Inspired by vocal music, she infuses each track with layers of her voice which serve as the drum beats, the bass, and the keyboard lines, with ASMR breathing surfacing throughout the album. The songs reflect on the transactional nature of love and sex, which is mirrored by the ephemeral sense of existence in the entertainment industry.


Following the album’s release this past spring and quickly selling out her first run of shows, Empress Of granted fans’ wishes by announcing a full North American, UK and EU tour. Launching September 24th in San Diego, Empress Of will be taking her catalog on the road with live dates in Washington D.C., New York, Boston, and Montreal among others before heading across the pond for the European and UK leg. Check out a preview of what’s in store with Empress Of’s KEXP performance now live here


Empress Of has collaborated with Top 40 pop artists like Khalid, cultural icons like Blood Orange, Lewis OfMan, DJ legend Boyz Noise, and many more. Last year the singer-songwriter also opened for Carly Rae Jepsen on her North American tour in addition to wowing audiences at festivals like Outside Lands and Corona Capital.


Listen to “Femenine” feat Urias (Maffalda remix) above and find full tour routing details below.



Upcoming Live Dates

9/24 - San Diego, California @ Cashbah 

9/25 - Pomona, CA @ The Glass House 

9/28 - San Francisco, CA @ Portola Festival

9/29 - San Francisco, CA @ Portola Festival After Party

10/1 - Seattle, WA @ The Showbox 

10/2 - Vancouver, BC @ Rickshaw Theatre 

10/3 - Portland, OR @ Wonder Ballroom

10/4 - Arcosanti, AZ @ FORM 2024

10/6 - Austin, TX @ Austin City Limits Festival

10/7 - Chicago, IL @ Thalia Hall

10/9 - Philadelphia, PA @ Brooklyn Bowl

10/10 - Washington, D.C. @ Union Stage 


10/12 - Monterrey, MX @ Heineken Silver Music Festival

10/15 - New York, NY @ Webster Hall 

10/16 - Boston, MA @ Paradise Rock Club 

10/17 - Brattleboro, VT @ The Stone Church 

10/18 - Montreal, QC @ Studio TD  


UK + EU Dates 

11/7 - London, ENG @ Pitchfork Music Festival 

11/9 - Manchester, ENG @ Yes 

11/10 - Glasgow, SCO @ King Tut’s Wah Wah Hut 

11/12 - Paris, FR @ Le Trabendo 

11/13 - Brussels, BELG @ Botanique 

11/15 - Utrecht, NL @ EKKO 

11/17 - Berlin, GER @ Säälchen 

11/18 - Warsaw, POL @ NEIBO 


Official North American tour artwork 

For Your Consideration (Deluxe Part 1) album artwork


Empress Of

For Your Consideration (Deluxe Pt. 1) 

September 13th, 2024

Giant Music


1. “Femenine” ft. Urias (Maffalda Remix)

2.“Cura” (Von Boch Remix)

 3. “Sucia” (umru Liturgy Remix) 

4. “Preciosa”(Florentino Megamix)

Empress Of by Kaio Cesar Oliveira and Urias by Gabriel Renné 


About Urias: 

A multifaceted artist, musical phenomenon, and a figure of great representation—this is Urias. Born and raised in Uberlândia (MG), the singer possesses a unique mark when it comes to music, dance, fashion, and message. With over 47 million views on YouTube, 290,000 monthly listeners on Spotify, and 1 million followers on Instagram, Urias is establishing herself as one of the leading voices in the current pop scene.

 

Urias released the first part of her album "HER MIND" featuring tracks that explore self-discovery, introspection, and her worldview, with electronic and Latin influences, incorporating English, Portuguese, French, and Spanish into the songs. The second part of the album "HER MIND" was released in November 2022, with lyrics focusing on power and desire—not in a sexual sense, but from a mental perspective. For this project, the artist introduced colors like neon red and pink, as well as lavender hues. And in June 2023, she released the complete version of "HER MIND" her second album. The work is based on a study from the University of Liège in Belgium, which proved that the brains of trans people are similar to those of cis people with whom they identify, rather than their biological gender. Through this, Urias expresses her thoughts, challenges society's misconceptions about her or anyone like her, and sings about "killing" her past. 

 

The "HER MIND" era positioned her as one of the leading pop divas in Brazil today, with over 23 million streams. Exploring musical genres from pop to disco, hip hop, and dancehall, singing in Portuguese, English, Spanish, and French, Urias sought to establish dialogues between musical genres and what she wanted to convey, in any language within "Her Mind.”

 

Her work is closely associated with LGBTQIA+ and Black activism in Brazil, making her one of the most prominent symbols of representation, with a strong social, ideological, and identity-driven message. Urias is an artist deeply aware of her social role as both a woman and an artist.



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