Self Esteem unveils new single ‘Girl Crush’

Self Esteem today shares her brilliant new single ‘Girl Crush’, following its world premiere by Annie Mac on BBC Radio 1. Lifted from her highly anticipated debut album Compliments Please, due for release via Fiction Records on 1st March 2019, ‘Girl Crush’ is available to stream and download now. Self Esteem explains: “‘Girl Crush’ is a reaction to the term itself. It should just be known as a crush. This isn’t a ground-breaking gender and sexuality statement; it’s just common sense. Women aren’t a fun new cool thing for straight women to try – and in an age of pop songs about ‘kissing girls’ and ‘trying it on for size’, I felt like saying ‘well you know, that’s not much fun for the person you’re experimenting on?’ It’s a difficult thing to talk about but it’s something I can make a banging pop song about.”

Compliments Pleaseis available to pre-order in digital, heavyweight vinyl, mintpack CD and bundle formats, with digital pre-orders receiving instant grats of ‘Girl Crush,’ alongside the previously released tracks ‘The Best,’ ‘Rollout’ and ‘Wrestling’. In celebration of the album’s release, and ahead of her full UK tour, Self Esteem will also be performing acoustic in-store sessions and signing copies of her album at record stores across the country.

Self Esteem is Rebecca Lucy Taylor, and a project which began with painting and prints and video alongside her day job writing and performing as one half of Slow Club. Since her musical divergence from the band, Rebecca has revelled in unleashing a whole version of herself with no compromises, no reducing herself, no hesitating. She would go on to write the songs that had been rising up inside her all through the years — big songs, that spoke of love and sex and chaos, that brought in huge basslines, gospel choirs, the kind of polished, provocative production she admired on the biggest pop records.

Compliments Pleasesaw Rebecca working with songwriter and producer Johan Karlberg, seeking him out because she loved his band, The Very Best, as well as his approach to production. “It has been challenging and incredibly frightening,” says Rebecca,‘but so much more satisfying because of this. I wanted to make pop music for my fellow flawed, squashed and disgusting humans having a go at life. I feel I’ve succeeded. And if I haven’t, I’m hoping to make a fair few more.”

Compliments Pleasetracklist:

1. (Feelings)
2. The Best
3. Steady I Stand
4. Girl Crush
5. Favourite Problem
6. (Hobbies)
7. I’m Shy
8. Peach You Had To Pick
9. In Time
10. Monster
11. Actors
12. Wrestling 
13. (Truly Free)
14. She Reigns
15. Rollout
16. On The Edge of Another One

To celebrate the release of Compliments Please, Self Esteem will be performing a number of special in-stores around release before heading on a full UK tour, taking in eleven shows including a stop at London’s Village Underground. 




Self Esteem in-store performances
1st March – BRIGHTON – Resident
2nd March – LONDON – Rough Trade East
4th March – LONDON – Banquet, Kingston
5th March – BRISTOL – Rough Trade
6th March – NOTTINGHAM – Rough Trade
9th March – MARGATE – Elsewhere

Self Esteem UK shows
See DICE for ticket info
9^thMarch – RAMSGATE – Ramsgate Music Hall
10^thMarch – NOTTINGHAM – The Bodega Social Club
12^th March– BIRMINGHAM – Hare & Hounds
13^thMarch – NEWCASTLE – The Think Tank
14^thMarch – MANCHESTER – Yes
15^thMarch – GLASGOW – Stereo
16^thMarch – SHEFFIELD – The Plug
18^thMarch – SOUTHAMPTON – The Joiners
20^thMarch – LONDON – Village Underground
21^stMarch – BRISTOL – Thekla
22^ndMarch – LEEDS – Belgrave Music Hall