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girlpuppy announces UK tour this May with shows at The Lower Third in London and The Great Escape in Brighton.

New album Sweetness out now.

girlpuppy, the musical project from Atlanta, GA, USA’s Becca Harvey, announces a run of UK tour dates this May, including performances at London’s The Lower Third, and Brighton’s Great Escape Festival.

The announcement follows the recent release of girlpuppy’s second full-length album, Sweetness, which arrived 28 March 2025 on Captured Tracks.

Sweetness is a raw and deeply personal exploration of the emotions that follow a breakup, touching on themes of grief, transformation, and growth. Written in the wake of a four-year relationship, Harvey’s songwriting unfolds like a journal—honest, detailed, and emotionally resonant.

For the release of Sweetness, girlpuppy has also launched the Sweetness Breakup Mixtape, a collection of 10 playlists each representing a different stage of heartbreak - from denial to acceptance. You can check it out here.

Sweetness includes the singles “Since April”, a song powered by thick layers of distorted guitar, thunderous drums reminiscent of the pop-punk anthems of her youth, and irresistibly bittersweet hooks, channelling both raw defiance and longing.

February lead single “I Just Do!” captures the thrill and futility of falling for someone emotionally unavailable. Written after a week in LA with a whirlwind crush, the track pairs witty storytelling with chunky guitars, ‘90s snare kicks, and irresistible poison-sweet hooks, and was named one of Rolling Stone US’s Songs You Need To Know.

The February release of “I Just Do!” was complemented by a striking vampire video directed by Trent Wayne (MJ Lenderman, Sinai Vessel) who also directed the video for previous single “Windows” which was released in January to acclaim from the likes of NME, and The New York Times, following December’s “Champ” which drew praise from international media outlets.

The live dates also follow a series of recent Record Release Shows in Atlanta, New York City, and Los Angeles in celebration of the release of Sweetness.

Sweetness marks Becca Harvey’s most expansive work yet, pairing her soft, mesmerizing vocals with dynamic, rock-inspired instrumentals.

The album reflects a striking duality: its title, drawn from a personal nickname, embodies a gentle warmth, while the songs themselves delve into the bittersweet and complex realities of heartbreak. The imagery ties everything together, inspired by annual beach trips with her ex and her Pisces connection to water, making Sweetness a poignant reflection on love, loss, and the tides of transformation.

When beginning work on the second girlpuppy album, Sweetness, Becca Harvey realized the record-making process itself would be almost as important as the final product. On her first album of alt-pop anthems—2022’s gorgeous, folk-infused When I’m Alone—the 25-year-old Atlanta-based singer-songwriter often felt like she was working in the shadow of her collaborators, writing words to their melodies and deferring to their creative impulses.

Made on the other side of a relationship where she often felt marginalized, Sweetness felt like the right project for Harvey to rethink her creative approach and work solely from her own lyrical and melodic ideas. The result of this process was a darker, more texturally varied record than its predecessor, full of heart-rending songs about pushing back against self-blame and doubt.

From its heavy-duty sonics to its naturally flowing melodies to its emotionally generous lyrics, every element of Sweetness exudes confidence, capturing Harvey relishing raw creativity and trusting her inclinations.

The record takes place within that moment all artists wait for: when their “voice” becomes so clear, they realize they can just open their mouth and start speaking in it.

Freed from the nagging insecurity that she couldn’t be a songwriter without playing an instrument—she cites The National’s Matt Berninger as an inspiration—Harvey began Sweetness by recording full-length acapella voice memos. To find a backdrop for the vocals, Harvey delved into her diverse, lifelong set of musical reference points, from the country and Top 40 pop she grew up on in small-town Georgia to the later favorites that expanded her idea of what songwriting could achieve: Elliott Smith, Lana Del Rey, Yo La Tengo, and more.

With the help of Asheville-based producer/co-writer Alex Farrar and additional co-writers Tom Sinclair and Holden Fincher, Harvey pinpointed a sweet spot between shoegaze, dream-pop, and pop-rock anthems from the turn of the millennium. The arrangements are sometimes nostalgic and always viscerally satisfying in their trajectories, powered by chunky sheens of distorted guitar in the choruses, drums played as hard as pop-punk hits from her youth (“Since April,” “For You Too”), and poison-sweet hooks invested with both defiance and desire.

Harvey’s friends from throughout the indie rock world helped fill out these arrangements: Horse Jumper of Love’s Dimitri Giannopoulos, The War on Drugs’ Dave Hartley, Beach Fossils’s Tommy Davidson, and more.

Lyrically, Harvey is witty and unsparing throughout Sweetness, taking inspiration from the break-up lyricists she reveres, from Leonard Cohen to Avril Lavigne.

Her memory is acute, accounting for nooks and crannies of romantic relationships history that lesser songwriters might skip over. “I Just Do!” is told in an elegantly scrambled montage that we don’t need to know the frame narrative to understand, capturing that dopamine-filled urge to drop out of existence just to stay in bed with someone a little bit longer.

An urgent, ’90s-pop snare pattern kicks in when Harvey recalls: “I love it when I make your friends laugh/I love how much they love you/And all the fun that you guys have.” These songs sparkle with details like this, mini-scenes that help create a 360-degree view of heartbreak.

Inside jokes give depth to moments of both grieving and annoyance, even when their context isn’t fully clear. In “I Was Her Too,” she references The Waterboys’ 1985 hit “The Whole of the Moon” to describe feeling alienated by random musical overtures from an ex (“Did you really see the crescent?/I don’t even know what that means”). Harvey explains:

“The person that [‘I Was Her Too’] is about sent that song to me and said it reminded him of me, and I never knew why. I was like, ‘I don't know if that was like a good or bad thing,’ because when I listen to the song, I'm like, ‘Okay, like, I guess so.’”

It’s both a funny and poignant moment: Unresolved questions about a person you loved—even slight or ridiculous ones—take on a bittersweet profundity once you accept that you may never have answers to them.For Harvey, the other major quotation on Sweetness points toward something at the heart of the record for her. The gauzy and melodically stunning “Windows” incorporates a twinkling keyboard line inspired by Fleetwood Mac’s “Silver Springs”. When Harvey mentioned the riff to her co-writer Alex Farrar as “the most iconic part of [‘Silver Springs’]’’ he replied:

“It's funny because that's not the most iconic part of the song, but to you it is, and you need to include it. That's why it's so special, this record.”

Harvey speaks about this interaction with a hint of emotion in her voice.

“I think about that whenever I listen to the song, because I thought it was so funny but also profound.”

Finding and articulating her unique perspective, and having it be met with reverence and respect, felt like a big deal even in the smallest moments of making Sweetness. In every way, the album is about these issues: finding your story, sticking to it, and judging what is important according to your own value set. Mixing the playful with the devastating, Harvey coasts on cathartic waves of emotion and monster hooks throughout Sweetness—a momentum which is guaranteed to push her to the front of the ranks of today’s most fearless rising indie-pop singer-songwriters.

Tour Dates

MAY 16 | Brighton, UK @ The Great Escape

MAY 17 | London, England @ The Lower Third

MAY 19 | Manchester, England @ Soup

MAY 20 | Glasgow, Scotland @ Hug & Pint

MAY 21 | Dublin, Ireland @ The Workman’s Cellar

MAY 24 | Bristol, UK @ Dot to Dot Festival

MAY 25 | Nottingham, UK @ Dot to Dot Festival

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Sweetness by girlpuppy

out now on Captured Tracks

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