waterbaby has dropped her debut LP Memory Be a Blade, available today via Sub Pop Records. To celebrate the news, the artist has shared album track “Srs Ice.” Memory Be a Blade is the follow up to the artist’s 2023 EP Foam is Darker. waterbaby will begin an 8-date UK & EU headline tour for 2026 in support of Memory Be a Blade. These shows will begin on March 19th in Gothenburg, Sweden, along with dates in Stockholm, London, Paris, and Berlin.

To spark inspiration for her new lyrics, waterbaby reflected on a past break-up. She had moved on and was seeing someone new while recording the album. But when the newer relationship ended, she witnessed how much the album took on a new meaning to reflect the heartbreak she hadn’t anticipated experiencing.

“Many of the songs came to mean very different things than what I had thought when writing them in the first place,” waterbaby admits.

In the two years following Foam, waterbaby and her primary collaborator, Marcus White, took their time to get the album right. They wrote and recorded around Stockholm, the south of Sweden, and even Los Angeles. As it took shape, however, waterbaby began to notice how much she would stiffen up behind the microphone. She admits she gets quite shy in the studio, opting for the familiarity of people like White to stay by her side. But in order to take her words and sound deeper, White encouraged her to improvise what she sang instead of writing it out ahead of time.

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Memory Be a Blade
Sub Pop Records

Tracklisting:
1. Sink
2. Memory Be a Blade
3. Clay
4. Beck n Call
5. Minnie
6. Minnie Too
7. Amiss
8. Srs Ice

waterbaby 2026 Tour Dates

Thu, Mar. 19 Gothenburg, SE – Nefertiti
Fri, Mar. 20 Lund, SE – Mejerlet
Sat, Mar. 21 Linköping, SE – Babettes
Sun, Apr. 12 Stockholm, SE – Södra Teatern
Wed, Apr. 15 London, UK – The Lower Third
Thu, Apr. 16 Paris, FR – Popup!
Fri, Apr. 17 Rotterdam, NL – MOMO
Sun, Apr. 19 Berlin, DE – Frannz

order Memory Be a Blade by Waterbaby HERE