Lissie Talks New Album, Covers Kid Cudi

After releasing her stellar debut EP, Why You Runnin’, last year, we told you to keep an eye on Lissie. This past weekend, we caught up with the songstress, who dished on her Bonnaroo performance and the release of her full-length debut.

“My debut album has been done for a while, but it’s going to be released in the UK before it’s released here, so it’s kind of a weird thing,” she told us. The album’s UK release is set for June 29. She says her debut, Catching a Tiger, will most likely become available in the U.S. later this year, but impatient/zealous fans will be able to import it from the UK in the meantime, even though she admits that "is kind of a pain in the butt.”

“It will be made available in [the U.S.] August, which might just mean online," Lissie elaborated. “I don’t know the official release date, but it will be at the end of the year or early next year. I’m trying to pressure… I’m like, ‘We need to do it, we need to do it,’ and I’m eager to just get back to the States. I love traveling, but I’m from the U.S.A. and that’s just what comforts me.”

Lissie and the rest of her band have been touring the UK since February, but hope to come back to the States and promote the new album when the across-the-pond trek wraps up in September. She says the new album “has a lot of variety,” and includes a few songs from Why You Runnin’ in addition to a couple songs produced by Band of Horses bassist Bill Reynolds and “some more polished, sort of single-sounding songs.”

When she’s not touring, writing and recording, Lissie is learning covers. Lots of them. She recently released videos of Lady Gaga and Metallica renditions, and, while at The Great Escape in Brighton last month, debuted another: Kid Cudi’s “Pursuit of Happiness.” You can watch that below:

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