Today, MICHELLE release their highly anticipated third album Songs About You Specifically via Transgressive Records. The album includes their previously released singles ‘Oontz,’ ‘Mentos and Coke’ and ‘Cathy’, the latter of which arrived alongside an accompanying music video that lands somewhere between reality and a daydream. On Songs About You Specifically, the band members express their complicated desires, voice their regrets, and own up to their moments of selfishness by slowing down, cutting out any distractions, and fostering a sense of communal closeness that necessitated honesty.

This unabashed honesty is exemplified in the effortless grooves of new single ‘Akira’, which centers around the feelings of lusting after someone while in a relationship. ‘Akira’ arrives complete with a video directed by Powered By Wind, with choreography by the band’s own Emma Lee.

Alongside the arrival of their third full-length project, MICHELLE announce a surprise headline show at London’s The Lexington on Wednesday 9th October. The show also comes in celebration of Transgressive Records’ 20th Anniversary alongside performances from Miso Extra and Nadia Kadek. Tickets are on sale here.

The band are also announcing their 2025 headline North American tour that will follow their fall tour launching next month. The band will be kicking off this tour on January 30th in Toronto with stops in Chicago, Nashville, Atlanta, and Washington D.C. before closing out the tour with two shows at Music Hall of Williamsburg in Brooklyn, NY. The band spent this past summer touring with Still Woozy as support on his Loveseat Tour and will be heading back on the road for their headline North American tour, titled A Tour For You Specifically, launching October 30th that will now see support from Ggwendolyn. The run includes live dates in Vancouver, Seattle, Denver, Los Angeles and more. MICHELLE will also be performing two more dates with Still Woozy in NY at Pier 17 on October 24th and 25th. Tickets will be available for purchase for the newly announced dates today at 10 am local time here.

While writing their new album Songs About You Specifically, MICHELLE rented out a house in Ojai, California. Surrounded by lizards, the smell of ripe cactus fruit, and endless expanses of sand, they experienced a profound sense of solitude and closeness that consequently shifted the tone of their work. While their earlier music channelled the churning restlessness of the city, these news songs meander and expand into starry shoegaze reveries, slick funk riffs, and lilting 80s synth pop.

The months they spent touring, as well as the experience of living together in Ojai, fostered new bonds between the band. “There are friends I’ve had for almost my whole life who I won’t know as intimately as I know members of this group,” band member Emma Lee shares. “There isn’t really an opportunity for that in any other kind of relationship in your life.” The sense of trust and comfort they fostered with each other allowed them to be more candid and vulnerable in their songwriting too. “It’s so easy to write a generic love or breakup song,” Julian Kaufman says. “But many of these stories are true. We’re coming from a really honest place.”