Katherine Priddy announces new album and tour with a Birmingham date for 2026
Katherine Priddy will release her latest album ‘These Frightening Machines’ on the 6th March 2026 with an extensive UK tour throughout April & May, stopping off at the Town Hall in Birmingham on the 9th May 2026
The new record follows Priddy’s highly acclaimed debut, The Eternal Rocks Beneath, and sophomore LP The Pendulum Swing, which firmly established her as one of the most exciting artists on the contemporary British music scene. In celebration of the new album release, Priddy will take to the road in April and May next year for a lengthy UK headline tour.
Speaking about These Frightening Machines, Priddy shared: “If the first album was for building a foundation, and the second album was about reinforcing what I’d already begun, the third album felt to me like a chance to be bolder, push out and try something new.”
Produced by Rob Ellis (P J Harvey, Anna Calvi, Marianne Faithfull, Bat for Lashes) and recorded at The Glaucus House, Middle Farm Studios in rural Devon, These Frightening Machines was written over the course of a year as Priddy made the transition from her 20s to her 30s. She consciously kept an open mind during the making of the album, focused purely on being creative, and determined to let the songs find their own form.
“At its core,” added Priddy, “I think These Frightening Machines explores the ever shifting relationship I have with my sense of self as a woman, my body and my place in the world as a 30 year old artist - but I’d like to think that whilst the songs are born from personal experience, the feelings expressed are widely relatable.”
The most sonically varied of her career, the songs on Priddy’s new album span a full spectrum of emotions from anger and despair to hope, longing and lust, from reclaiming the voices of women silenced by history, to expressing solidarity and love, to confronting illness, disconnection, the vulnerability and importance of relationships, and the general ache of growing older and not always wiser. They explore what it means to keep going when things fall apart, to hold onto connections in a world that sometimes divides, and to figure out where we fit into the machines and systems we find ourselves a part of.