Lala Lala, announces her new album Heaven 2, will drop on February 27th, via Sub Pop Records (her debut for the label). Along with the album news, the project of Lillie West, has announced new North American tour dates, including stops in Austin, Nashville, Toronto and more.

Heaven 2 was co-produced by West and Jay Som’s Melina Duterte, who provides a strong punchiness as a bed for West’s warm, rounded vocals. Duterte and West performed almost all of the album’s instruments with a few guests, including Sen Morimoto, Macie Stewart and Porches’ Aaron Maine.

For many years, West lived in Chicago, where she established Lala Lala as part of the city’s indie scene, releasing two albums – The Lamb (2018) and I Want the Door to Open (2021) – on the Sub Pop imprint Hardly Art.

West left Chicago to search for more, and in the process, wrote Heaven 2. On her journey, she landed off the grid in Taos, New Mexico, then made her way to Iceland, where she lived on and off for two years, with the off being in London, where she grew up. Following a residency in a tiny Icelandic town, she made her way to Reykjavik and released an instrumental album, If I Were A Real Man I Would Be Able To Break The Neck Of A Suffering Bird (2024), and finally headed to Los Angeles, where she has, almost surprisingly, fallen in love and found herself settled. It’s been a good place to live, not because she particularly likes or dislikes L.A., but because she’s discovered that, as she puts it, “wherever you go, there you are.” This sentiment permeates throughout Heaven 2.

Take “Even Mountains Erode” in which West sings about how it’s ultimately okay to be on one’s own: “There are symbols and signs, you’re missing your life // You’re under a threat, that you can’t feel yet // And if you need to be free, I don’t see what you see // But I’m not opposed // Even mountains erode.” And the melodramatic “Heaven2,” written at a time of feeling defeated. West’s vocals build like a cloud swelling before a storm, synths sweep across the song, the drums patter like raindrops on a car roof, and then the whole sky opens up, with a massive instrumental outro taken straight from the demo.

Catharsis is not only about the pain, but the escape that happens when you free yourself of it. And so there are moments of bold joy on the album, too. “Resistance is the root of all suffering, and I did not know that,” says West. “I thought that I could dictate the course of my life.” Of course, like everyone else, she could not. Wherever you go, there you are.

Lala Lala
Heaven 2
Tracklist
Sub Pop Records

1. Car Anymore
2. Even Mountains Erode
3. Arrow
4. Tricks
5. Scammer
6. Heaven2
7. Anywave
8. Does This Go Faster?
9. This City
10. Wyoming Dirt

Lala Lala 2026 Tour Dates

Fri. March 6 – San Diego, CA @ Casbah %
Sat. March 7 – Pioneertown, CA @ Pappy + Harriett’s %
Sun. March 8 – Tucson, AZ @ Club Congress %
Tue. March 10 – Austin, TX @ 29th St. Ballroom %
Wed. March 11 – Dallas, TX @ Rubber Gloves %
Fri. March 13 – Denver, CO @ Globe Hall %
Sun. March 15 – Salt Lake City, UT @ Kilby Court %
Tue. March 17 – Portland, OR @ Polaris Hall %
Wed. March 18 – Seattle, WA @ Baba Yaga %
Fri. March 20 – San Francisco, CA @ Cafe du Nord %
Sat. March 21 – Los Angeles, CA @ Lodge Room %
Tue. March 31 – Washington, DC @ Songbyrd*
Wed April 1 – Raleigh, NC @ Kings*
Thu. April 2 – Asheville, NC @ Eulogy*
Fri. April 3 – Atlanta, GA @ Masquerade Altar*
Sat. April 4 – Nashville, TN @ Blue Room @ Third Man*
Tue. April 7 – Minneapolis, MN @ Zhora Darling*
Wed. April 8 – Milwaukee, WI @ Cactus Club*
Thu. April 9 – Chicago, IL @ Thalia Hall*
Fri. April 10 – Detroit, MI @ Lager House*
Sat. April 11 – Toronto, ON @ The Garrison*
Sun. April 12 – Montreal, CA @ L’Esco*
Tue. April 14 – Boston, MA @ The Sinclair*
Wed. April 15 – Philadelphia, PA @ PhilaMOCA*
Thu. April 16 – New York, NY @ Nightclub 101*
Fri. April 17 – Brooklyn, NY @ Baby’s All Right*

% = w/ lots of hands
* = w/ mother soki

Pre-order Heaven 2 by LaLa Lala HERE