Her hugely acclaimed third album and debut book, both titled A Complicated Woman, were released last year, both containing all Taylor’s unmistakable thumbprints – complex thought processes unfolding in real time, an effortless knack of exposing the feelings women are required to labour under. Propelled by a jubilant choir constructed of dozens and dozens of mostly female voices including close friends, her band and collaborators, the album boasts some of Taylor’s strongest and most fearless writing to date – a month after its release she received the Ivor Novello Visionary Award.
Returning to Klarna presents Latitude after a celebrated show on our Second Stage in 2022, Rebecca Lucy Taylor, AKA Self Esteem, is one of the UK’s most exciting breakout stars of the past decade. Emerging from cult favourite to mainstream hero in the space of five whirlwind years, she enters 2026 as a bona fide triple threat in music, literature and acting.
Through the notes, lyrics and biting observational prose for which Taylor has become lauded, A Complicated Woman offers itself up as a subversive anti-Bible for any woman who has ever cracked under the weight of impossible expectation; who has done unto others the damage that has been wrought upon her; and who has discovered deep within herself a resilience that surprised her. It’s a cathartic scream that gets to the heart of being a woman in the world today, and cements Taylor as one of the most exciting voices of her generation.
Self Esteem performing on the Second Stage, Latitude 2022:
Trust us when we say you won’t want to miss her in Henham Park this summer…