LISTEN TO MOTORDROME
WATCH NEW MOON

TORONTO, ON – January 28, 2022 – Danish superstar, MØ, has released her long-awaited captivating third album, Motordrome, today via RCA alongside her radiant yet reflective new single and video, New Moon. 
 
Motordrome is MØ’s first body of work since 2018’s much lauded, Forever Neverland, and the 10-track album is a commanding new collection of songs that combine full-blown pop with darker grungy punk alongside honest and confronting lyrics. The lead track from the album, New Moon, is on the pure pop end of the scale with a triumphant chorus and direct lyrics about leaving things behind and making a new start. It’s a break-up song, but for everyone. The video, directed by London based multi-visual design duo Fa and Fon, is a intriguing visual delight and sees MØ confronting her fears head on. 
 
She says, “New Moon is a song made to manifest a new era, a song about regaining control. To me, it's a reminder to listen to myself, trust my instincts, and not let external forces blur my vision and get me stuck in a spiral. I hope other people get the same energy from it.”
 
MØ enlisted friends and long-time collaborators Caroline Ailin (Dua Lipa, Katy Perry, Ellie Goulding) and Noonie Bao (Halsey, Charli XCX, Carly Rae Jepsen) to help flesh out her original song workings, with further songwriting and production from a close circle including Ariel Rechtshaid (Haim, Vampire Weekend, Adele), Jam City (Olivia Rodrigo, Troye Sivan), S.G. Lewis (Dua Lipa), Linus Wiklund and Yangze. 
 
Motordrome’s title came from a conversation MØ had with her mother about her battles with anxiety. The panic and intrusive thoughts called to mind the “dødstrome”, which is an old carnival trick in which a stuntperson rides a motorcycle around the vertical walls of a motordrome at death-defying speeds. The making of the album proved to be MØ’s escape from this deepening spiral, although the album is very much a document of a person-in-progress. While there is a strong sense of empowerment and of brighter days ahead, it also serves as a reminder that everyone has to deal with their own dødstrome and that there is no perfect remedy for life’s struggles, and that’s OK.
 
She says, “I hope that people will feel that it's genuine and that there are stories there that they can connect with. For me this album represents a huge change in my life. Even though I'm still doing what I love doing, it does feel like a new chapter. An era of my life is over and I’m entering a new one. That is scary, but it’s freeing.”
 
Teasing the album with four singles so far - Kindness, a love letter to her fans, the euphoric Live To Survive the raw Goosebumps and the ode to her teenage crush, Brad Pitt - the full album features six further new tracks to make up a forward-thinking, emotional and uplifting new body of work. The full tracklisting as follows:

1.Kindness 
2.Live To Survive
3.Wheelspin
4.Cool to Cry
5.Youth Is Lost
6.New Moon
7.Brad Pitt
8.Goosebumps
9.Hip Bones
10.Punches 

This year sees MØ return to the road with a run of very special headline dates in Europe and North America alongside US tour dates with Imagine Dragons. Full dates are below. 

About MØ:
Forever Neverland saw MØ touring the world over off the back of its success. Her career was almost instantly launched into the stratosphere with her monumental 2014 debut album, No Mythologies to Follow, and a very prominent feature soon after on one of the most successful singles of all time with Major Lazer’s Lean On. When touring behind Forever Neverland came to a halt in 2019, MØ found herself completely burned out after five years on the road.
 
She returned to Denmark to recalibrate and recover from the physical and mental exhaustion she was experiencing as a result but had trouble checking out. A serious vocal injury requiring months of rehabilitation exacerbated her bouts of anxiety and a sense that things were slipping out of her control.
 
MØ, born Karen Marie Aagaard Ørsted Andersen, hunkered down and did what she knew best by writing songs. The music that began to emerge bridged the gap between her years as a teen-punk touring anarchist squats across Europe, and the bright Scandipop she’d come to be known for to create a darker and more personal take on her sound with new album Motordrome.

TOUR DATES
February 25 @ Fiserv Forum, Milwaukee *w/ Imagine Dragons
February 26 @ Concord Music Hall, Chicago 
February 27 @ Target Center, Minneapolis *w/ Imagine Dragons
 
MARCH:
March 2 @ Extramile Arena, Boise *w/ Imagine Dragons
March 4 @ Rogers Arena, Vancouver *w/ Imagine Dragons
March 5 @ Wild Buffalo, Bellingham 
March 7 @ Climate Pledge Arena, Seattle *w/ Imagine Dragons
March 9 @ Moda Center, Portland *w/ Imagine Dragons
March 10 @ August Hall, San Francisco
March 12 @ Staples Center, Los Angeles *w/ Imagine Dragons
March 13 @ San Diego, The Observatory 
March 14 @ Footprint Center, Phoenix *w/ Imagine Dragons
 
APRIL:
April 7 @ Cat’s Cradle, Chapel Hill 
April 9 @ Sound Money Festival, Miami 
April 10 @ Jannus Live, Tampa 
April 11 @ Variety, Atlanta 
April 13 @ Union Transfer, Philadelphia 
April 14 @ Webster Hall, New York 
April 15 @ Royale, Boston 
April 17 @ 9:30 Club, Washington 
 
MAY:
May 12 @ Parkteatret, Oslo 
May 13 @ Debaser, Stockholm 
May 15 @ NIEBO, Warsaw 
May 16 @ Kesselhaus, Berlin 
May 19 @ Heaven, London 
May 20 @ Le Trabendo, Paris 
May 22 @ Orangerie - Botanique, Brussels 
May 24 @ Melkweg Oz, Amsterdam 

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