Queen Of The Clouds, the 2014 debut album that established Tove Lo as one of the most impressive talents in pop, has gotten an expanded reissue for its 10th anniversary. Dubbed Queen Of The Clouds: X, the revamped set has been expanded with a slate of rare and previously unreleased tracks from the Swedish singer-songwriter.
Those unreleased tracks include “Jealousy (From The Vault),” a song written in 2014 that never saw official release until now, written by Tove, Mattman & Robin, and Jason Gill and produced by Gill. Other newly excavated tracks on the reissue include “Talking Body 2014 (Jax Jones Remix)” and “Write me off – super demo.mp4a.”
Upon its arrival in 2014, Stereogum called Queen Of The Clouds “the best pop album of 2024 so far,” while endorsements from outlets like Pitchfork and Rolling Stone concurred that the album was introducing the world to a talented rising star. Tove has continued to pile up hits and accolades since then, but Queen Of The Clouds features some of the best-loved songs in her acclaimed discography, including her highest-charting American hit, the No. 3-peaking “Habits (Stay High),” and another top 20 single in “Talking Body.”
Songs like those exemplified Tove’s fearless approach to songwriting, pairing lyrics about love’s messy highs and lows with pristinely crafted melodies and production. The album is divided into three sections—‘The Sex,’ ‘The Love,’ and ‘The Pain’—subjects exemplified by lyrics like the vivid “Habits” opening line, “I eat my dinner in my bathtub, then I go to sex clubs/ Watching freaky people getting it on.” As she told Billboard in 2014, “I started to use music almost like a therapist, where it’s like, everything that I don’t really dare to say or speak about, I can sing about.”
