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The British indie pop star returns with a sensitive and undeniably joyful third studio album, in which this great romantic rubs shoulders with a no less seductive reality.
Fantasized loves, good-looking boys, wild summer nights, and guilt-ridden blackouts… In Memoir of a Sparklemuffin , her introspective electric album released two years ago, Suki Waterhouse sings, in a velvety voice, of her romantic misadventures tinged with disillusionment. Today, the indie pop star is searching for something else entirely.
This quest for balance, marked by new beginnings—the arrival of her daughter with Robert Pattinson in April 2024 being perhaps the ultimate illustration—permeates her intimate new work. A more vulnerable side of the singer is explored across fourteen heartfelt tracks , reconnecting more than ever with her voluptuous pop, retro charm, and rock romanticism.
The roller coaster of life
“Writing Loveland was a way for me to rediscover myself. To understand who I was becoming while making this album.” With her emotions running like a rollercoaster, Suki Waterhouse envisions this personal odyssey as a game where victories and defeats coexist. She brings this metaphor to life by including a Game of Loveland on the vinyl , a dice game designed to be played while listening to the album.
Former “it girl,” the object of everyone’s desire, and now a loving mother-to-be, Suki Waterhouse is back, or ” Back in Love,” as her catchy intro attests. The 34-year-old London native has been a Californian by choice for years, becoming one of its lovergirls, somewhere between Lana Del Rey and Clairo. But her velvety nostalgia still inspires her to return to her roots, as on “Notting Hill ,” where she reminisces about an English breakfast—her favorite part of which remains her loved one: “I’ll bring you breakfast in bed / you’re my favorite flavor.”
She continues to move us with the ethereal “Teardrops ,” to seduce us with disarming honesty on the effervescent “Tiny Raisin ,” evoking the ups and downs of parenthood: “He’s entirely mine / and at the same time, I deeply hate him,” while intoxicating us with the thrilling love of the sensual ” When I Get Drunk (I Want You Boy) .” One thing is certain: with this new motherhood, Suki Waterhouse hasn’t abandoned the sweet intoxication that characterizes her. Dreamy and loving, imperfect and human, the singer is clearly happy. Her luminous music is all the more radiant for it.