Tove Lo brings the ESTRUS tour to The Sylvee on April 29

The Swedish pop provocateur lands on East Washington next spring with Coco & Clair Clair opening, a stop announced just last week.

There is a particular kind of Madison spring night that The Sylvee was built for: the sidewalk on Livingston Street full by seven, the line bending toward East Washington, and 2,500 people about to sing every word of a pop record they have been living with all winter. Tove Lo just booked one of those nights.

Tove Lo plays The Sylvee on Thursday, April 29, 2027, at 8 p.m., with Atlanta duo Coco & Clair Clair opening. The date was announced Nov. 2, and tickets are through Ticketmaster. It is a weeknight, it is five and a half months out, and it is exactly the kind of show that is easier to plan around now than to chase later.

The show sits on the ESTRUS tour, named for the record Tove Lo released on Sept. 18 — her sixth studio album, rolled out over the summer with singles including "I'm Your Girl Right," the Stromae duet "Des Fleurs," "DNH" and "Source of Life." The tour's first North American swing this fall was deliberately small: six release shows that opened in Nashville on Sept. 15 and ran through rooms like Toronto's Coca-Cola Coliseum and the Greek Theatre in Los Angeles. Australia gets her in March, with stops in Brisbane, Melbourne, Sydney and Perth, and the April date here suggests the record is now headed back through the American middle in earnest.

That is good news for anyone who had to settle for clips from the release shows. ESTRUS has been pitched, from the first single, as a bodily, unguarded record, and the reviews of the Australian announcements leaned on the same idea: this is a tour meant to be felt in a room, not watched from a screen.

The room matters. The Sylvee opened on Sept. 27, 2018, at 25 S. Livingston St., a block from the High Noon Saloon, and it was named for Sylvia Frank, who co-founded Frank Productions with her husband, Herb, in 1964. At 2,500 capacity it sits in the gap Madison spent years complaining about — bigger than the clubs, a lot closer than an arena — and pop shows tend to make the best case for it. A tiered general-admission floor this size means even the back of the room feels like part of the crowd, which is the right setting for a performer whose whole pitch is closeness.

Coco & Clair Clair are a smart pairing on that front: a pop duo with a sense of humor, slotted in front of a headliner who has never been shy. Get there for the opener.

A few practical notes. The Sylvee is in the Capitol East District, so plan for the usual East Wash parking shuffle, or walk or bike from the Isthmus if you can. Thursday shows mean a late-ish Friday morning for some of you; that is between you and your manager.

And if you have been meaning to sit with ESTRUS properly, you have all winter. By the end of April it should feel like a record you know by heart, which is the best way to walk into this room.

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