LANY

LA-based duo LANY have just announced their highly anticipated headline show in the 3Olympia Theatre, Dublin onThursday 4th June 2026 as part of the soft world tour. 

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Paul Klein (lead-singer & songwriter) had just finished a workout at his local gym last summer when his and LANY’sworld was (for a brief moment, quite literally) flipped upside down. Only a couple miles from where he lives in Hollywood, he hopped on his vespa scooter to head home and a minute later was crossing an intersection when a car appeared from nowhere. He squeezed the brakes, braced for impact and at the last second “let go”. He woke up in an ambulance. “The first thought I had when I woke up was that God loves me. That I’m still here for a reason and I have a purpose.” He doesn’t know how much time passed on the pavement. He doesn’t know who called the ambulance. He doesn’t know how long it took them to arrive. He does know how fortunate he is to be alive. “I’m so grateful to be alive, but I hope there are some parts of me that died on the road that day,” he says. “I was holding onto some things that I didn’t need to be. Resentment. Unforgiveness. I was becoming pretty bitter and callous — hard of heart.” It’s poetic then that the band’s new album, titled “Soft”, addresses his attempts to fight against that internal hardness — to stay soft of the inside, while simultaneously fighting to rehabilitate an even stronger, harder exterior to protect that same vulnerability and softness within.

The LA-based duo (comprised of Klein and his bandmate/ best friend Jake Goss) were less than two weeks away from the Australian leg of their “a beautiful blur” world tour when the accident happened. Having already finished the European, North American and Latin American legs, the band were spending the first weeks of summer at home, recharging before getting back on the road. Nobody could’ve imagined how quickly everything would change. What is perhaps more conceivable is how catalyzing a moments like this would be for Klein, both personally and creatively. Thematically and visually “Soft” exists in tension — an intentional contrast of the hard and soft. Tangible, literal, physical hardness juxtaposed with metaphorical, relational (and, at times too, physical) softness. The cover itself depicts the perfect visual of that

dichotomy: a lamb, representative of one’s own softness, in the wounded and bandaged arms of the one that has fought for and protected it. “It’s so easy to let the challenges of the world harden you,” Klein says. “The hardest thing to do is to fight against it — to stay soft. To protect your softness and the things that you love.” 

Sonically, the album explores these same tensions — much of the softness and vulnerability of lyric that has defined LANY’s acclaimed career, now with a harder, braver edge to the production. Where familiar listeners might’ve expected to encounter some more predictable or safer choices, LANY has seriously matured and evolved. The soft piano ballads west-coast-indie guitars and bedroom pop sonics that LANY helped create and popularize aren’t entirely abandoned, but their sound and Klein’s writing has expanded. The list of brave choices on “Soft” begins with Klein’s willingness to start writing mere weeks after waking up in the ambulance. It continues with the band’s decision to produce the album entirely with Tommy King, who has a more abstract, indie production background / history (Bon Iver, Dijon, Vampire Weekend, Haim) and ends with a sonic-identity that is simultaneously incredibly fresh and peculiarly familiar (another dichotomy that defines the record and has come to define the band). 

Nowhere is this seen more than lead-single “Know You Naked”. Lyrically a vulnerable love-letter, highlighted by Klein’s vocal range and thoughtful extra touches; the tension and contrast is found in an almost-industrial, dissonant guitar-intro (that continues to persist below the surface), harsh synth stabs, punchy snare hits and momentary “glitchy” static-like sounds. There’s also a particular moment on the album’s title track and opener “Soft” that sets the scene and prepares the audience for what’s ahead. It’s only one and a half minutes into the album, but is the first time the initial “softness” of the record is broken and it kickstarts the record into life — a daring, crystalizing early highlight. 

In more than a few of the tracks, the record could more aptly even be described as R&B. Maybe that’s where some of the familiarity stems from… The band’s origins and early works felt more “80s”, but were always very R&B-adjacent. The song “Good Parts” feels like it drew inspiration from the “late-90’s / Y2K” in that way — you can just imagine a big-budget music video played 40x a day, every day, on MTV to accompany such an enormous track. This feeling is identified most strongly in the unstoppable album closer “Last Forever” though — an astonishingly raw and honest, soul-bearing ballad that existing fans and new listeners will be desperate to have on loop (or, dare-say, to last forever). While it pushes sonic and thematic boundaries, it still feels a lot like LANY, treading that tightrope of tension the band thrive on. 

With “Soft” dropping this Fall, the band have spent the latter parts of 2024 and early 2025 relentlessly working on the record, but have found time outside of the studio too. Earlier this year they played two special nights with The National Symphony Orchestra at The Kennedy Center in DC before headlining Seoul Jazz Festival in Korea in May. LANY have always brought so much of the energy from their live shows to their recorded works and it’s easy to see that influence on “Soft”. While the new record was incubated in the immediate aftermath of the accident — writing and production beginning within just a couple of weeks — the band were amazingly back on stage in Europe to finish their world tour just two months after the crash, albeit with Klein on a crutch. 

That tour canvased the globe; highlights of the 80+ show / 300,000+ ticket run including a first-ever sold out stadium in Manila, a second time headlining The Forum locally in LA, and festival headline slots at the iconic Summer Sonic Festivals in Tokyo and Osaka. Nominated for “Best Pop Tour” by Pollstar, the band’s energetic, entrancing, and ever-evolving live show continues to captivate fans on multiple continents.