dodie – Darling, Angel, Baby
dodie today debuts her infectious new single ‘Darling, Angel, Baby,’ the latest song to be lifted from her eagerly anticipated second album, Not For Lack of Trying, announced by the one and only Jeff Goldblum last month and due for release on 3 October via Decca / Verve.
The song is dedicated to dodie’s beloved cat Mrs, with whom she shares with her flatmate and FIZZ member Greta Isaac, who makes an appearance on the track. “In an album full of pain and confusion and figuring it out, Mrs is such a big part of my life and she brings me so much joy,” she shares.
Not For Lack Of Trying also features previous singles ‘I Feel Bad For You, Dave’ and ‘I’M FINE’.
Written mostly between London and Los Angeles and produced alongside Grammy-nominated Joe Rubel (Maisie Peters, Griff, Sigrid), Not For Lack Of Trying is the product of a lengthy gestation. dodie spent three years turning inwards to pen what would become the “sibling’” to her acclaimed 2021 debut Build A Problem, packaging her reflections on everything from falling in love and breaking up to comparison culture and struggles with depression. But she couldn’t quite find the thread that tied all of these intimate portraits of her life together, until she finally landed on a title that gave her the clarity she was seeking. “Not For Lack Of Trying is so simple, so sad and it really painted this picture of all these songs, of me trying to figure it out,” she explains.
After that breakthrough, dodie wrote the pensive title track as a natural coda to a record which finds the North London-born singer-songwriter striving for meaning in a challenging chapter of her life. “Lend me joy I can’t see mine / But not for lack of trying,” she declares in the grounding final moments. “It was one of those songs that feels like it’s already written, so you’re trying to find it,” she says.
dodie – tour 2025-2026
30th October 2025 – Melkweg Max, Amsterdam
1st November 2025 – De Roma, Antwerp
3rd November 2025 – Zoom, Frankfurt
4th November 2025 – Technikum, Munich
5th November 2025 – Kaufleuten, Zurich
7th November 2025 – Roxy, Prague
8th November 2025 – Simm City, Vienna
9th November 2025 – Dürer Kert, Budapest
11th November 2025 – Proxima, Warsaw
12th November 2025 – Columbia Theater, Berlin
13th November 2025 – Gruenspan, Hamburg
14th November 2025 – Live Music Hall, Cologne
16th November 2025 – Le Trianon, Paris
18th November 2025 – O2 Academy, Birmingham
19th November 2025 – O2 Apollo, Manchester
20th November 2025 – O2 Academy, Glasgow
21st November 2025 – The National Stadium, Dublin
23rd November 2025 – Cardiff Uni The Great Hall, Cardiff
24th November 2025 – Roundhouse, London
20th February 2026 – Brooklyn Bowl, Nashville, TN
22nd February 2026 – Buckhead Theatre, Atlanta, GA
23rd February 2026 – The Fillmore Silver Spring, Silver Spring, MD
25th February 2026 – Terminal 5, New York, NY
26th February 2026 – TLA, Philadelphia, PA
1st March 2026 – House of Blues Boston – Music Hall, Boston, MA
3rd March 2026 – Danforth Music Hall, Toronto, ON
4th March 2026 – Riviera Theatre, Chicago, IL
5th March 2026 – First Avenue, Minneapolis, MN
7th March 2026 – Summit Music Hall, Denver, CO
10th March 2026 – The Wiltern, Los Angeles, CA
11th March 2026 – Fox Theater, Oakland, CA
13th March 2026 – Crystal Ballroom, Portland, OR
15th March 2026 – Showbox SoDo, Seattle, WA
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