Leave The Light On is more refined, less obvious but big – very big. Pillow Queens haven’t made In Waiting part two, however.
Though they made the most of the last two years, this time round Pam says, “We’re not going to be having our whole album release behind a computer screen.” They made it to SXSW in Austin, Texas, are currently touring their way across the US and Canada, from California to Vancouver to Boston, and release Leave the Light On on Friday. So it made sense.”Īnd so this is the year of Pillow Queens mkII. And it’s not as if we didn’t have the time to do it or the space. We love it but we’re so ready to do something different. We’re finishing off essentially the In Waiting tour now, but we’re already sick of it. We were gunning to release something else so we could get that experience again, because I know, like we toured, we did that. “We didn’t really get that experience of what a debut should be. But we’re really proud of the album, listening back to it now.” There’s an inherent regret that lead singer Pam Connolly, talking to me for a feature in the Irish Examiner in March, alludes to as well, agreeing that new album Leave The Light On is following quickly on the heels of their debut. And it’s just a really strange starting point for an album. So now the album’s being released from like, very little backing. We didn’t even do any livestream stuff or anything. And I think had we done festival season, we would have felt like we’d had an opportunity to prove ourselves, and that that hype was justified, maybe, hopefully. “This is the album that we’ve been working towards, for so long, there’s definitely a sense of pressure. Talking to Sarah Corcoran, bassist and co-vocalist, around the release of In Waiting in September, there was a sense of missing out on something. But come March 2020, SXSW was cancelled, Pillow Queens were stuck at home and if I was sad for them, I can’t imagine how they felt. They had released a string of great singles – with standout accompanying videos – and at the start of 2020 were gearing up for SXSW and releasing a long-awaited debut album. I don’t think there was a band I felt sadder for than Pillow Queens when Covid first hit and everybody’s best-laid plans were shot to pieces.
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