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CXLOE
reveals new single
‘CRY & DRIVE’

+ Touring Nationally This MAY/JUNE
On The
Heavy Part I Tour

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Image Credit: Ash Lim

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“CXLOE shoots down ever-shifting artistic expectations with a simmering, seething hook.” – BILLBOARD

“Australia’s next big musical export”  – ROLLING STONE 

“Your new dark-pop princess” – V MAG

“Epitome of sad girl music, but backed with a bass so strong that you can’t help but set your feelings to the side and just dance.” – REFINERY29

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Following its announcement last week, CXLOE has today revealed her touching new single ‘Cry & Drive’, accompanied by a striking lyric video – out now via Sandlot Records/AWAL.

Drenched in sentiment and vulnerability, CXLOE explains the single’s heart wrenching origins: “I wrote ‘Cry & Drive’ late last year, a couple days after my grandma passed away. I found myself crying and driving on the way home from the hospital, to the point where it was dangerous. I was on the phone to my partner and he told me to pull over and not cry and drive.” 

She elaborates further, “I found 2020 very displacing. I didn’t, and still don’t know where I belong in the world and I often find myself in my car driving to feel like I’m going somewhere. I spent a lot of time with my Grandma in the coming months before she passed away and told her how I was feeling. She was the biggest fan of my music so to make sure she forever lives on in my life and in my music I decided to put her last voicemail she ever sent me at the end of the song. It kills me every time I hear it, but it’s a perfect bookend to her life, this song, and my grieving.”

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‘Cry & Drive’ is the first single to be revealed from CXLOE’s second body of work, the follow up to her critically acclaimed debut EP Heavy Part I which features singles and fan favourites  ‘12 Steps’, ‘One and Lonely’, ‘Heavy’ and ‘Swing’. In celebration of the release of ‘Cry & Drive’, CXLOE will perform a strictly exclusive release party tonight at Sydney’s Phoenix Gallery for select fans who have been lucky enough to win tickets this week.

CXLOE will make her eager return to the live stage later this month when she traverses the country on her Heavy Part I Tour. Kicking off at Melbourne’s The Night Cat, the Heavy Part I Tour – her biggest headline tour to date – takes in shows across Wollongong, Adelaide, Perth, Sydney and Newcastle. General public tickets are on sale tomorrow Friday 7 May at 12noon AEST from CXLOE.com. She will also take to the stage at this month’s Big Pineapple Festival in Woombye, Queensland.

CXLOE wanders between alternative and electronic, with a unique pop sensibility to creating a sound all her own. A pure musical aesthetic met with complex and dark lyrics brings a true contrast to her artistry. To date, CXLOE has amassed more than 50 million streams, over 6 million of which come from the USA. Support and critical acclaim has seen CXLOE receive enviable international attention across countless global playlists including over 50 global New Music Fridays on Spotify, airplay and coverage from triple j, all pop-leaning commercial radio stations across Australia and across global titles such as Billboard, CLASH, The Line Of Best Fit, LADYGUNN, V Magazine, Refinery29, VOGUE Australia, and countless more. 

Don’t cry and drive. Do call your grandma! 

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CXLOE
Heavy Part I Tour
Live Dates

Fri 21 May | Nightcat | Melbourne, VIC*
Sat 22 May | Big Pineapple Festival | Wombye, QLD 
Fri 28 May | Friday Juice | Wollongong, NSW
Fri 4 June | The Lab, Adelaide, SA
Sat 5 June  | Jack Rabbit Slims | Perth, WA 
Fri 11 June | Oxford Art Factory | Sydney, NSW*
Sun 13 June | The Cambridge | Newcastle, NSW

*presented by Frontier Touring

Tickets:
GP tickets on sale 12noon AEST
Friday 7 May from HERE

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‘CRY & DRIVE’ OUT NOW – VIA SANDLOT RECORDS/AWAL

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