Tove Lo

AEG Presents
TOVE LO
Mallrat
TUE, 15 SEP 2026 at 08:00PM CDT
Ages: All Ages
Doors Open: 07:00PM
OnSale: Wed, 20 May 2026 at 10:00AM CDT
Announcement: Tue, 12 May 2026 at 12:00PM CDT
Few artists have redefined the emotional possibilities of modern pop as completely as Tove Lo. Emerging from Stockholm with a diaristic style and a defiant openness around sex, addiction, and vulnerability, she quickly became both a pop outlier and a generational touchstone, earning global hits, critical acclaim, and a devoted audience drawn to her unfiltered perspective. Beyond her own catalog, she has shaped the sound of contemporary pop as a sought-after songwriter, bringing that same emotional complexity to artists across the pop spectrum. Here is a singular artist who has never flinched from the uncomfortable, and who has continually evolved her sound to match the emotional stakes of her writing. After years of locating truth somewhere between hedonism and vulnerability, her sixth album ESTRUS (meaning female mammal in heat, of course) dives into an even deeper, uncharted level of honesty. It is a record full of thrashy emo chic rooted in instinct that feels like both a reinvention and a return to the core of Tove Lo’s mission statement: making people feel everything all at once. Fans will notice that this is the longest Lo has ever taken between albums. Her last album, Dirt Femme (2022), documented many life-altering changes: she acted in her first film, went independent, and got married. After the dust settled, Lo was unsure where to head next. In these intervening years, she was filled with questions she had no idea how to resolve, let alone transmute into pop music. She searched for some kind of clarity with longtime collaborator Ludvig Söderberg. After a couple of years, she realized that not having the answer “was the answer in itself.” “I’ve got a lot of feelings but no solutions,” she sings over the opener’s dirty, metallic production. It sets the defining manifesto of this album, which can be summed up in a few words: contradictions that cannot be resolved.
On ESTRUS, Lo draws a finer line across the opposites that have always existed in her work: happiness and sadness, melancholy as content, euphoria as form. Through contradiction, she gets closer to the heart of existence itself, “what it actually feels like to be a human being,” she says. It is an album that charts the full experience: dry-humping on the dancefloor, getting drunk, insecure, and starting a fight; walking home at 6am with mascara running, coming down and wondering whether it was all worth it, then doing it all again. On ESTRUS, the mind and body pull Lo in different directions. One wants to stay out all night, the other wonders whether it is time to stay home and have kids. “I just have all these tumultuous feelings flying back and forth,” she says. “I think that’s why the album feels so chaotic, but in this intentional way.” The process itself mirrored the album’s emotional volatility. Early on, she and Söderberg got drunk and began yelling at each other about everything they were going through. Out of that frenzy, the shape of the album emerged. All of the contradictions, the constant fight. She was acutely aware of the expectations surrounding her: six albums in, what do fans want? What does marriage signify to those watching from the outside? What does it mean for her queerness, for the fluid identity she has always protected? Inspired by The Knife, Robyn, and much of the Swedish indie dance music she grew up on, Lo recorded the propulsive electro-pop of ESTRUS with her longtime collaborators, as well as Elvira Anderfjärd and Luka Kloser (Addison Rae), in a small fishing village in Sweden where she spent summers as a child and where she also made parts of Dirt