dodie – Not For Lack Of Trying
dodie announces her eagerly anticipated second album, Not For Lack of Trying, due for release on 3 October via Decca Records.
The album is heralded by a new single, ‘I Feel Bad For You, Dave,’
‘I Feel Bad For You, Dave’ is the second song to be lifted from the record, following ‘I’M FINE,’ released last month to considerable acclaim. The bossa nova-inflected ‘I Feel Bad For You, Dave’ is, says dodie, “a song about the ego of people who feel as though they lack power, so try to gain it in ways that ironically have the opposite effect. We all know a Dave!”
It is also partly a fiery riposte to keyboard warriors after she watched her close friend endure racist abuse online. “I did not know what to do — I wanted to just drag them down, I wanted to reply to them and make videos about them,” she remembers. “And I was like, ‘OK, I can’t do any of that, so I’ll write a song.’”
Written mostly between London and Los Angeles and produced alongside 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 embarks on a major UK and European tour in October and November, and today announces North American dates for February-March 2026. Tickets for the new shows go on general sale on Friday 22nd August at 10:00am local.
dodie – tour 2025-2026 (new dates in bold)
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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