Jehnny Beth explores primal obsession with new single, "Obsession"

“’Obsession’ is the first song Johnny and I wrote together for this album,” Jehnny Beth says. “The lyrics ‘you heartbreaker, you’ gave the title to the album but, more than that, the song gave the album its tone. It is probably one of the most detailed tracks on the record. The song obviously deals with the subject of primal obsession. It has this spiralling repetitive tension to the point of explosion, going from a whispered confession to a gnarly scream in the blink of an eye, which was fun to make – imagine Tricky and Jonathan Davis making a song with Adam Jones from Tool! In my head anyway.”

Recorded and produced by longtime co-creator Johnny Hostile at their 20L07 studio in France, You Heartbreaker, You follows her 2020 debut solo album, To Love Is To Live.

Jehnny Beth will spend most of October on tour, with dates across the EU & UK in Paris, Milan, Munich, Prague, Berlin, Amsterdam, including two London shows: on 30 October at Electrowerkz and 31 October at the Camden Assembly.