Tove Lo Announces Eerie New Album ‘Estrus’ and Fans Are Ready to Spiral

After nearly four years away from the album cycle, Tove Lo is back with a new era that already seems to be woven in spooky, dark pop magic (and we are so ready for a witchy season).

The singer announced Monday that her next studio album, Estrus, will arrive Sept. 18. She also confirmed the project’s lead single, “I’m Your Girl Right?,” drops Wednesday. Alongside the reveal, Tove shared cover art, a full track list, and a caption that reads less like a press release and more like a warning label (you’re about to be entranced by her magic!).

“Estrus is an animal in heat,” she wrote on social media. “It’s primal, contradicting emotional chaos. It’s my mind and my body wanting different things, wanting everything. There’s no good advice on this album… just a lot of feelings, no solutions :)”

That mission statement alone points toward another emotionally messy pop record from the artist who built an entire career out of dancing through bad decisions and existential spirals. A new chapter after ‘Dirt Femme’

Estrus marks Tove Lo’s first full-length solo release since 2022’s Dirt Femme, an album that became one of the strongest entries in her catalog. The record explored femininity, intimacy, insecurity, and desire through the lens of her marriage to Charlie Twaddle while pushing her sound deeper into club-pop territory.

Tracks like “Grapefruit,” “No One Dies From Love,” and “Suburbia” balanced vulnerable writing with massive production. Even at its most emotional, Dirt Femme still felt designed for a packed dance floor at 1 a.m.

The album also carried extra weight behind the scenes. It was her first independent release through Pretty Swede Records, giving Tove full creative control after years within the major-label system. That freedom translated into a project that felt less polished for radio and more focused on instinct.

If the early description of Estrus is any indication, she’s leaning even further into impulse this time around. The track list is already raising questions

Fans immediately started dissecting the newly revealed titles, which range from cryptic to slightly concerning in the best way possible.

The 13-track album includes:

1. a lot of feelings, no solutions
2. I’m your girl right?
3. if I could I would
4. des fleurs x stromae
5. DNH
6. F.A.M.T
7. I’m the cake
8. the bad one
9. die for my art with a lonely heart
10. are we on a break
11. idiot
12. roomie
13. source of life

One standout surprise is “des fleurs x stromae,” which appears to reference Stromae. Tove Lo has a long history of unexpected collaborations, so fans are already speculating whether the Belgian artist appears on the track itself. Pop’s patron saint of oversharing

Since breaking through with “Habits (Stay High)” in 2014, Tove Lo has carved out a lane that few pop stars fully occupy. Her music thrives in contradiction: detached but emotional, euphoric but devastating, reckless but self-aware.

After signing with Universal Music Group, she quickly became one of pop’s most reliable hitmakers. Her debut album Queen of the Clouds produced “Talking Body” and the sleeper smash “Habits (Stay High),” which climbed to No. 3 on the Billboard Hot 100.

She followed that success with albums like Lady Wood, Blue Lips, and Sunshine Kitty, each one expanding her reputation as a songwriter unafraid of discomfort. Outside her own catalog, she’s also penned tracks for artists including Lorde and Ellie Goulding, including the global hit “Love Me Like You Do.”

Over the years, she’s collaborated with everyone from Charli XCX to Kylie Minogue, though her own records remain the clearest window into her artistic identity.

Now, Estrus looks ready to continue that streak, less interested in clean cut imagery but rather leaning into the madness and vast spectrum of emotion she goes through, and as fans, we are ready for that glimpse into her mind and soul.

And honestly? “A lot of feelings, no solutions” might be the most relatable album thesis of 2026 so far.

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