Olivia Dean announces second album 'The Art Of Loving', arriving September 26th

Multi-BRIT Award and Mercury Prize nominee Olivia Dean announces her highly-anticipated second album, 'The Art of Loving', arriving on 26th September via Capitol Records.

'The Art of Loving' is a tender, intentional deep dive into the many dimensions of love - romantic, platonic, self, and everything in between. The album will feature Olivia’s recently released single, "Nice To Each Other", which is accompanied by a one-take visual captured by Jake Erland. When speaking about her joyful new single, Olivia comments, “‘Nice To Each Other’ is a song about the push and pull of exploring your independence in dating. It’s about enjoying someone in the present and allowing it to be both light and meaningful. I think this song and video represents a playfulness in me that I’m excited for people to see.”

'The Art of Loving' follows the critical success of Olivia's 2023 debut, 'Messy', which saw her cement her status as one of the most compelling voices in neo-soul and pop. Olivia will open for Sam Fender on his run of UK Headline shows, which kick off this Friday at the London Stadium, before performing a celebratory underplay at Shepherd’s Bush Empire on 11th June. Olivia will join Sabrina Carpenter at her BST Hyde Park show on 6th July, then embark on her sold-out Across The Atlantic US & Canada headline tour this Summer - full dates below.

With her signature warmth and lyrical honesty, Olivia Dean invites listeners into a new era of sound and storytelling. Poised to be her most intimate work yet, 'The Art of Loving' begins an exciting chapter from one of the UK’s most mesmerising artists.

Watch the official music video of 'Nice To Each Other' here.

About Olivia Dean:

Since the release of her critically-acclaimed debut album Messy in 2023, Olivia Dean’s star continues to glisten. The project was an intricately textured document of love, relationships and self-discovery - embracing familiar subject matter with refreshing and intimate approaches, both sonically and emotionally. And whether it’s a Mercury Prize and 3 BRIT Awards nominations or soundtracking the latest Bridget Jones’ film Mad About The Boy, a whole host of viral tracks or touring the world with her band in sold-out shows across the Globe later this year, the response to Olivia has made it clear that her uniquely vulnerable formula is both compelling and deeply necessary today.

“It’s been beautifully overwhelming in so many ways,” Dean smiles. “I did everything I ever wanted to do career-wise, I feel so satisfied and content and proud of myself.” Bucket list moments have been ticked off twice over, like her Jools Holland Hootenanny performance that took on a life of its own on social media and her childhood dream of graduating to Glastonbury’s iconic Pyramid Stage came true with a magical career-defining set. All that’s left now is Strictly Come Dancing (“please guys, give me a call!” she jokes).

It’s safe to say that her singular yet soulful concoction of open-hearted art has proved infectious, capturing the hearts of lover-people worldwide. Her musical voice is a nourishing, philosophically-tinged, offering on the beautiful chaos of life and connection - a study and in embrace all at once. And in this next phase, of adjusting to new normals of fame and dreaming new dreams for herself, Dean is zooming in even further on love in all its precious nuance. “It’s the one thing in life that we don’t have concrete facts or education on and we look to music and film and art and each other to help each other learn,” she says. “We’re trying to all piece our own little version of it - of how we’re supposed to do it - together. I’m obsessed with love, I’m fascinated by it. I’m a sucker for it!”

Her upcoming single ‘Nice To Each Other’ proves just how boundless that source of inspiration can be, literally fizzing with its own romantic possibilities. On it, she distills the tightrope feeling of getting to know someone new with her signature tactility: ‘don’t know where the switches are, or where you keep the cutlery.’ As the guitar strums hopefully and she hums featherlight harmonies over the dreamlike pop production, she lands happily at the simplest of conclusions, ‘oh we could be nice to, oh to each other.’

It’s a playfully self-assured new prism for Dean, sweetly naive and purposefully independent. “I can be quite traditional in my approach to love. But in the last year I’ve just been thinking about an alternative, in a place where I’ve been choosing myself. I want to be loved and love other people but right now in my life, I’m really just doing me and it feels really cool,” she says. “I think there’s a whole spectrum of how you can have relationships with people in your life and still make them really meaningful and honest. But that’s a new thing for me to be honest.”

Perhaps surprisingly, Dean admits to struggling with sincerity in her day-to-day life, often freezing under the pressure to say the exact right thing in the exact right way at the exact right time. And while her friends often joke about her ‘one gushy moment per year’ quota, fortunately for us, she’s determined to pour the rest of those feelings into her music; mastering the art of crafting the perfect moment in song where spoken words might fail. In the studio, she can strike the precise balance in the way she’s done faithfully since her emergence: rich in feeling, delicate in words and tender in melody.

“I’m really drawn to being vulnerable in music and really just laying it all out there. One song in particular that I’ve written, I had to sit with myself and go... is it necessary?” she laughs. But beyond her own personal catharsis, the idea of her songs taking on new lives as an emotional toolkit for others, figuring life out right alongside her, is at the heart of why she does what she does. “I think the answer is always that it is needed to share. Because there are super vulnerable songs that save my life when I’m feeling so lost. And if they didn’t exist, what would I do? So you must!”

Upcoming Live Dates

*Headline Show

• Friday 6th June - London Stadium - London, UK [Sam Fender Support]
• Wednesday 11th June - O2 Shepherd’s Bush Empire - London, UK *
• Saturday 14th June - St James’s Park - Newcastle, UK [Sam Fender Support]
• Sunday 15th June - St James’s Park - Newcastle, UK [Sam Fender Support]
• Monday 16th June - L’Olympia - Paris, France *
• Sunday 6th July - BST Hyde Park - London, UK [Sabrina Carpenter Support]
• Saturday 12th July - Variety Playhouse - Atlanta, GA *
• Monday 14th July - 9:30 Club - Washington, DC *
• Wednesday 16th July - Theatre of Living Arts - Philadelphia, PA *
• Thursday 17th July - Brooklyn Paramount - Brooklyn, NY *
• Saturday 19th July - Royale - Boston, MA *
• Tuesday 22nd July - Théâtre Beanfield - Montréal, CA *
• Thursday 24th July - Massey Hall - Toronto, CA *
• Friday 25th July - Massey Hall - Toronto, CA *
• Sunday 27th July - Concord Music Hall - Chicago, IL *
• Wednesday 30th July - Ogden Theatre - Denver, CO *
• Friday 1st August - Soundwell - Salt Lake City, UT *
• Sunday 3rd August - The Warfield - San Francisco, CA *
• Tuesday 5th August - Fonda Theatre - Los Angeles, CA *
• Wednesday 6th August - Fonda Theatre - Los Angeles, CA *
• Saturday 16th August - Wythenshawe Park - Manchester, UK [Sam Fender Support]
• Friday 22nd August - Royal Highland Showgrounds [Sam Fender Support]