Empress Of drops her new single “Preciosa,” the track arrives ahead of her forthcoming album For Your Consideration, available March 22nd via Giant Music. “Preciosa,” follows her recent feature on Shygirl’s Club Shy EP as well as previously released album tracks, “What’s Love” ft: MUNA, “Femenine,” and “Kiss Me,” featuring Rina Sawayama.

Empress Of performing three sold-out nights in New York, three nights in Toronto, and two nights in Los Angeles. She’ll also be performing at Rough Trade in NY and Amoeba in LA upon the album’s release. Full tour routing can be found below. The upcoming dates also follow her recent sold-out shows in London and Paris.

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, Cecile Believe, Umru, and more, The album evolved out of the title track, which Lorely conjured out of the midst of disappointment. Empress Of shares, “I was in love with a director and he was announcing his ‘For Your Consideration’ campaign for the Oscars,” she remembers. “He took me up on a hill and said he was emotionally unavailable and he kind of broke my heart. I went into the studio that day and we wrote a song called ‘For Your Consideration’ that reflects on glam and Hollywood. That was the gateway for the album and it gave me the opportunity to explore broader themes.”

The album was 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, which veer between English and Spanish, reflect on the transactional nature of love and sex, which is mirrored by the ephemeral sense of existence in the entertainment industry.

“I rented a convertible in Miami and drove around blasting the demos,” Lorely says. “In Montreal, I rented a black Jeep and I wore an enormous wool trench coat. I became a character. I wanted to go to those places because I wanted to immerse myself in those worlds, even though it’s ultimately an LA album. It’s a playful, cheeky album that doesn’t get buried in its own emotion. It came from a time where I was exploring being single and it doesn’t feel sad to me in the way some of my past music has.”

Empress Of 2024 Tour Dates

3/24 – New York, NY @ Rough Trade
3/28 – Los Angeles, CA @ Amoeba
5/22 – Brooklyn, NY @ Elsewhere Zone One
5/24 – Brooklyn, NY @ Elsewhere Zone One
5/25 – Brooklyn, NY @ Elsewhere Zone One
5/30 – Toronto, Canada @ The Drake
5/31 – Toronto, Canada @ The Drake
6/1 – Toronto, Canada @ The Drake
6/7 – Los Angeles, CA @ The El Rey
6/8 – Los Angeles, CA @ The El Rey

Pre-order For Your Consideration HERE