Beabadoobee Shares “Memories,” New Single From Pylon

Beabadoobee is already an arena-level act, but the singles leading into next month’s Pylon have given the album a sharper outline. After the non-album teaser “All I Did Was Dream Of You,” she returned with the pop-rock charge of “Sun Has Set” and the trip-hop-leaning “Switchblade.” The new single “Memories” adds another register.

The song moves like a dreamy rock track with enough forward momentum to keep its layers from blurring. Laus opens with a specific image: “The smell of rain on the pavement / It’s 3 a.m. and I thought of you,” then asks, “Just stay a little while.” That request lands as both romantic and uncertain.

Laus has called “Memories” one of the happiest songs on Pylon, but she ties it to the danger of a nostalgia spiral: clinging to ideas that should make her happy but instead make her sad because she wishes they were moments she could live in forever. That ambivalence gives the song a less settled center than its arrangement suggests.

Pylon is out September 18 via Dirty Hit/Interscope. Beabadoobee will also play a secret-venue London show for Spotify’s Hometown concert series on September 17, the day before the album arrives.