Sarah Klang Announces U.S. Tour Dates + “Other Girls” Wins Special Jury Award At SXSW

On the heels of her appearance at SXSW and a sold-out show at LA’s Moroccan Lounge, Swedish artist Sarah Klang announces that she’ll return to the U.S. this June for a run of headline dates in support of her acclaimed new album Beautiful Woman. The tour starts on June 13 in Pittsburgh, PA and wraps with an appearance on Mountain Stage in Charleston, WV on June 22. All dates are listed below.

Produced by Eric D. Johnson (Fruit Bats, Bonny Light Horseman), Beautiful Woman sees Sarah use her own lived experiences to unpack the very essence of what it means to be a woman today.  Sarah shares, “Ultimately, Beautiful Woman is a celebration of womanhood and girlhood. It doesn’t really have a lot of love songs; it’s not focussed on a specific guy. This is an album about the awkwardness of being a child, a teenager and about understanding your relationship with your body and self in a patriarchal world.” 

Spanning childhood to the tumultuous teenage years and into young adult life, its topics include wanting to fit in (“Other Girls”), revisiting painful memories from childhood (“Childhood”), needing love but worrying about the co-dependency that comes with it (“Last Forever”), and issues of body confidence as adulthood approaches (“Beautiful Woman”). It’s a fresh, but equally comforting set of deeply personal, introspective tracks from an artist for whom such reflection comes naturally.

Beautiful Woman is also the product of a new creative process for Sarah, who switched her previous preference for home recordings by heading to Los Angeles, where her “Go To The Sun” co-writers, the aforementioned Grammy-nominated producer Eric D. Johnson and her regular collaborator / co-producer Theodor Stocks led sessions which focused on live performances with the help of top tier musicians such as drummer Josh Adams (Cat Power, Beck) and bassist Josh Mease (The Weeknd, Fruit Bats). The process was completed with similarly highly accomplished contributions, with mixing by Jarvis Taveniere (King Gizzard, Avalanches) and mastering by Heba Kabry (Big Thief, Björk, Future Islands).

Sarah Klang has always had a talent for autobiographical songwriting, like on her acclaimed debut ‘Love in The Milky Way’ (2018), which won Best Album at the Swedish Grammis awards. It continued on ‘Creamy Blue’ (2019), which earned two more Grammis nominations as well as a nod for European Album Of The Year at the IMPALA Awards.  While her sound had previously touched upon ‘60 and ‘70s pop, Americana, and an undercurrent of country, 2021’s acclaimed ‘VIRGO’ added elements of ‘80s synth-pop to the mix and led to a second Grammis, this time for Best Alternative Pop. In 2023, Sarah signed to Nettwerk and released ‘Mercedes’, which earned yet another Grammis nomination (Best Pop Album of the Year) as well as widespread international praise.