Tommy Lefroy has announced their debut album, The Precariat, due October 23 via Thirty Tigers. Alongside the announcement the band has released the album’s latest cut, ‘Thief’. Listen to ‘Thief’ HERE
Written over six years between itinerant stays in Nashville, Los Angeles, Vancouver, Michigan, and London, The Precariat takes its name from the economic term describing a growing class of people living with increasing instability and uncertainty. Throughout the album, Tommy Lefroy’s Wynter Bethel and Tessa Mouzourakis weave together literary, artistic, and musical influences – from Virginia Woolf, tradwives and suffragettes, to Springsteen’s paradoxical patriotism – balancing sharp cultural observation with warmth and emotional honesty, ultimately offering connection as the antidote to uncertainty.
‘Thief’ serves as one of the album’s emotional centrepieces. One of the first songs Bethel and Mouzourakis wrote together nearly seven years ago, it reflects on the visceral toll of grief and coming to terms with time spent on a lost cause. The accompanying music video, directed by Brendon Burton, finds the band in vignettes of abandoned spaces across the North American plains. Houses reclaimed by mold and moss, decaying ephemera, and relics of obsolete technology frame the band as they sing “I just wanna feel / shiny and new.”
Since releasing their debut EP Flight Risk in 2021, Tommy Lefroy earned a JUNO Award nomination for Breakthrough Artist of the Year, opened for Sigrid at Wembley Arena less than a year after playing their first headline show in London, and toured internationally with Samia and Niall Horan, performing for audiences numbering in the tens of thousands.
Tommy Lefroy has announced a handful of North American headline shows this autumn in support of the new album. Please visit https://www.tommylefroy.com/ for more information.
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