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Joy Crookes announces second album, ‘Juniper’
The record follows 2021’s Mercury-shortlisted ‘Skin’.
Joy Crookes shares new track ‘I Know You’d Kill’After teasing with the release of a series of tracks over the last few months, Joy Crookes has now announced details of her second full-length album.
‘Juniper’, which follows 2021 debut ‘Skin’, shortlisted for the following year’s Mercury Prize, will be released on 26th September, and features previously-released tracks ‘Pass The Salt’ (featuring Vince Staples), ‘Mathematics’ (featuring Kano), ‘I Know You’d Kill’ and this month’s ‘Carmen’.
Joy is also headed out on tour this winter across Europe, beginning in Dublin on 3rd November, and finishing a month later, in Oslo on 9th December.
The dates are:
NOVEMBER
3 Dublin Olympia
10 Glasgow O2 Academy
11 Leeds O2 Academy
12 Manchester Academy
14 Birmingham O2 Academy
15 Bournemouth O2 Academy
16 Bristol O2 Academy
18 London Brixton Academy
24 Brussels Ancienne Belgique
26 Amsterdam Melkweg
28 Hamburg Docks
29 Cologne Music Hall
DECEMBER
1 Zurich X-Tra
2 Paris Salle Pleyel
4 Berlin Tempodrom
7 Copenhagen Vega
8 Stockholm Cirkus
9 Oslo Rockefeller
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