La Roux’s Old Flames tour will mark her first extensive headlining run across North America in 12 years, according to Consequence, with dates beginning 31 January 2027 in Toronto and concluding 25 February in Mexico City. The wider tour, spanning North America and Europe, follows the release of Old Flames on 6 November, her fourth studio album and first since Supervision in 2020.
What Old Flames Is About
La Roux composed, wrote, produced and arranged Old Flames in its entirety. The record addresses the end of a 17-year relationship, alongside forbidden love, addiction, sexuality and identity. Speaking about the personal weight behind it, she said: ‘This record says things how they are: how I am and who I am. It’s been a process of admitting what I got wrong through telling these tales and coming to terms with where I am now.’ She has also described it as ‘a farewell to that way of behaving in love and life. And in music too.’
The album’s emotional stakes are matched by its cultural reference points. NME reports that Old Flames references both David Lynch and Donnie Darko, which suggests a preoccupation with the surreal mechanics of memory and self-delusion that those works share. It is a fitting frame for an album that circles back obsessively on the past, its very title implies something extinguished yet still capable of burning.
Three tracks have surfaced ahead of the release. ‘Cabin Fever’ and ‘Babyline’ introduced the campaign, and ‘Lose Myself’ followed, centred on La Roux’s years of weed dependency and the tension between escape and reliance. Together, they map an album that is less a pop record than a reckoning, even if its production roots remain in the sleek synth architecture she has always favoured.
La Roux’s Old Flames Tour: Dates and Context
The North American leg runs from 31 January in Toronto to 25 February in Mexico City, taking in New York and Los Angeles along the way. European dates include Paris, Berlin and London. It is, by any measure, a substantial commitment: the last time La Roux mounted a headlining run of this scale across North America was over a decade ago.
That gap makes the tour’s scope feel considered rather than routine. The intervening years have not been idle ones, she supported Hilary Duff on a global arena run that included London’s O2 Arena and Madison Square Garden, but arena support slots and headline tours operate on different terms. A headlining set demands a setlist that carries its own argument, and with four albums now available, including one as dense and personal as Old Flames, La Roux arrives with more to say than she did the last time she held the stage alone for a full run in America.
The wider critical conversation around Old Flames will inevitably return to the collaborations that have defined her career’s peripheral edges. Skream and Skrillex both remixed ‘In For The Kill’, and she later worked with Skream on his 2010 album Outside The Box. In 2019, she appeared on Tyler, The Creator’s Igor; Tyler subsequently remixed ‘Automatic Driver’ from Supervision. A 2021 collaboration with CASISDEAD on ‘Park Assist’ extended that pattern of working across genre lines without ever quite dissolving into them. Old Flames, with its Lynch references and its unflinching autobiographical focus, suggests she is less interested in cross-genre capital now than in staking out her own particular territory.
Old Flames is released on 6 November via Casablanca Records. The North American headline tour follows on 31 January 2027.
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