I Hope You Don’t Remember Me (1LP)

Alt-pop pioneer Baby Queen releases her highly anticipated second album, I Hope You Don’t Remember Me on Insanity Records. Seeking a radical creative shift, Baby Queen (the artistic moniker of South Africa-born, London-based songwriter Bella Latham) decamped to Los Angeles to make the album with producer Alex Cassnoff. The resulting record combines live instrumentation and synths and features a powerhouse rhythm section boasting legendary bassist Michael Shuman (Queens of the Stone Age) and drummer Carla Azar (PJ Harvey, Jack White).

Driven by the fallout of a seismic, strange romance and written in a period of intense emotional turbulence, the record marks a departure from early EP Medicine, The Yearbook mixtape, and Baby Queen’s Top 5 hit debut album, Quarter Life Crisis. Shifting away from her signature sociopolitical commentary, she turns the lens inward, delivering a deeply personal record of heartbreak and self-reckoning