Nessa Barrett: The Tough Love Tour

**Nessa Barrett will perform on March 25, 2027, in the Grand Hall at Lucerna.** Nessa Barrett holds a twisted fascination for unrequited love. Moving to Los Angeles at 17 plunged her into a world of extremes. Now 23, she has spent her formative years navigating the intoxicating, often punishing romantic cycles of love stories built on illusions. Her new album, *Tough Love*, explores the bursts of romance that thrive in a city like Los Angeles. *“Tough Love is a sonic dark romantic experience,”* Barrett explains. *“Each song represents a different form of tough love.”* Sonically, *Tough Love* expands on the brooding, trip-hop foundations she has been cultivating since her *Aftercare tour* and her recent EP, *Jesus Loves a Primadonna*. The cinematic, noir atmospheres of her previous work now make room for a guitar-driven palette. Her wide array of influences shines across the record, drawing from Massive Attack and Portishead to Alice in Chains and Fleetwood Mac, though she always adds her *“own dark twists.”* *“My entire life, I’ve been in this nonstop cycle: I fall in love, create a fantasy in my head, get obsessed, it’s passionate — and then reality kicks in, and I go through the heartbreak again,” she shared previously. “Obviously, I don’t learn my lesson, because I write another album about the same things. But that’s just life.”*