SELF ESTEEM’S NEW ALBUM
A COMPLICATED WOMAN OUT NOW
LISTEN HERE
WATCH “THE DEEP BLUE OKAY” VIDEO HERE.
"Liberating and life affirming pop sermons" - ★★★★★ Rolling Stone UK
"Self Esteem shoots from the hip, strikes at the heart, and sends you on a journey to the centre of her soul" - ★★★★★ Dork
“Her most concentrated and burning record” - ★★★★★ DIY
“Sharpens the tension between frank vulnerability and pop maximalism”
- ★★★★★ The Skinny
“Her best yet” - The Guardian
"The rebel queen of pop" - The Times
“A Complicated Woman might be as cutting and powerful as its predecessor, but the melodies were designed for stadiums” - BBC News
A COMPLICATED WOMAN OUT NOW
LISTEN HERE
WATCH “THE DEEP BLUE OKAY” VIDEO HERE.
"Liberating and life affirming pop sermons" - ★★★★★ Rolling Stone UK
"Self Esteem shoots from the hip, strikes at the heart, and sends you on a journey to the centre of her soul" - ★★★★★ Dork
“Her most concentrated and burning record” - ★★★★★ DIY
“Sharpens the tension between frank vulnerability and pop maximalism”
- ★★★★★ The Skinny
“Her best yet” - The Guardian
"The rebel queen of pop" - The Times
“A Complicated Woman might be as cutting and powerful as its predecessor, but the melodies were designed for stadiums” - BBC News
Self Esteem AKA Rebecca Lucy Taylor today releases her eagerly anticipated and already acclaimed new album A Complicated Woman, available in digital, CD, cassette and vinyl formats - including limited editions - via Republic Records.
A Complicated Woman is the follow up to the acclaimed BRIT and Mercury Prize-nominated 2021 album Prioritise Pleasure - an album of the year everywhere from the Guardian to the Sunday Times.
A Complicated Woman contains all Taylor’s musical thumbprints – complex thought processes unfolding in real time, an effortless knack of exposing the feelings women are required to labour under – but set on a larger, brighter landscape that is nothing short of exhilarating. Running through the album is a jubilant choir constructed of dozens and dozens of mostly female voices - “a community of people. I want you to hear and feel the connection” - including close friends, her band and collaborators, that includes - but is not limited to - singer-songwriters Nadine Shah, Moonchild Sanelly and Sue Tompkins from Life Without Buildings; Meatball and a bona fide Lancaster legend, the actress Julie Hesmondhalgh.
Her new single - the album’s widescreen closing track – “The Deep Blue Okay” was debuted by Huw Stephens last night on his BBC 6 Music show and is available to stream and download now, alongside a video by regular collaborator Piers Dennis.
Last week Self Esteem completed a seven-show, five-night run of A Complicated Woman Live - a unique and theatrical presentation of her forthcoming new album at the intimate Duke Of York’s Theatre in London. The entire run of shows sold out within minutes of going on sale and was praised in a string of rave reviews, with The London Standard calling it “slick, ambitious and innovative but also bursting with heart, this show… underlines Self Esteem as a true one-of-a-kind” in a five star review, whilst Rolling Stone UK - also awarding the show five stars - simply asked: “Is there anything Rebecca Lucy Taylor can’t do?”
Self Esteem embarks upon her biggest tour to date this autumn, taking in 14 shows across the UK and Ireland, including two nights each at Glasgow’s Barrowland Ballroom, Manchester Academy, Bristol Beacon and London’s O2 Academy Brixton. Tickets are on sale now.
Self Esteem - UK tour
15 September - O2 Academy, Birmingham
16 September - Usher Hall, Edinburgh
18 September - O2 City Hall, Newcastle
20 September - Barrowland Ballroom, Glasgow
21 September - Barrowland Ballroom, Glasgow
24 September - 3Olympia Theatre, Dublin
27 September - Academy, Manchester
28 September - Academy, Manchester
03 October - The Beacon, Bristol
04 October - The Beacon, Bristol
09 October - O2 Academy Brixton, London
10 October - O2 Academy Brixton, London
17 October - Brighton Centre
18 October - Utilita Arena, Sheffield
Self Esteem - photo credit: Scarlett Carlos Clarke
One of the UK’s most exciting breakout stars of the past decade, Rebecca Lucy Taylor, AKA Self Esteem emerged from cult favourite status to mainstream hero following the huge success of her empowering, truth-telling 2021 single ‘I Do This All The Time’. The song resonated intensely as a perfect example of Taylor’s affectionately termed ‘trojan horse’ or ‘salad and chips’ approach, fearlessly packing important, emotive messages into witty, resonant pop music.
Self Esteem’s wildly acclaimed second album Prioritise Pleasure quickly followed, tackling the hypocrisies and joys found in her experiences of modern day womanhood across dating, friendship, comparison culture, self love, women’s safety and sexual assault and much more. Prioritise Pleasure received Mercury Prize, BRIT Award, Sky Arts and NME Award nominations, was crowned The Guardian and Sunday Times Culture’s Album of the Year, and ‘I Do This All The Time’ was also named The Guardian’s #1 song of 2021.
Quite the opposite of an overnight success, Taylor spent a decade as one half of indie duo Slow Club before adopting the pop star persona she’d always dreamed of. She released her first Self Esteem album Compliments Please in 2019, featuring fan favourite singles ‘The Best’, ‘Girl Crush’ and more.
Gathering a passionate and vast legion of fans ever since, Taylor has appeared on The Graham Norton Show, Celebrity Gogglebox, Friday Night Live, performed three times on Jools Holland including the NYE Hootenanny, graced the covers of magazines from Grazia to NME to Sunday Times Style, and is one of a handful of artists to have been playlisted across BBC Radio 1, 2 and 6 Music simultaneously.
Having reached new heights of acclaim, Taylor has continued to grow, diversify, and create in 2024. Branching out into the world of acting, Taylor starred in a regular role in the Sky series Smothered, before completing a run playing Sally Bowles in the multiple Olivier Award-winning production of 'Cabaret at the Kit Kat Club' in London's West End. Starring alongside Jake Shears (lead singer of Scissor Sisters) as Emcee, the pair’s time on stage was extended due to popular demand, and showcased the sheer range of talent in Taylor’s repertoire. A one-off collaborative single with Moonchild Sanelly, ‘Big Man’, was released in the summer of 2024.
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