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Sofia Isella is 21 years old and already playing Madison Square Garden. That fact alone tells you something, but the music tells you everything else. Her third EP ‘Something Is a Shell’ is out now independently, arriving alongside lead single “Numbers,” a stripped, percussive reckoning that pairs her unflinching vocal delivery with a track that confronts control, autonomy, and the dark underbelly of institutional power. This is not background music. It demands your full attention and earns it completely.

“Numbers” opens the EP with immediate weight, setting the tone for a project that builds on previously released tracks “Out in the Garden” and “Above The Neck.” Together the three tracks form a cohesive statement from an artist who has moved from viral momentum to sold-out rooms to arena stages in the span of a single banner year. The trajectory here is not gradual. It’s vertical.

The world tour that accompanies ‘Something Is a Shell’ is a serious undertaking. Starting tonight in Washington DC at Capital One Arena with Florence + The Machine in support, the US leg runs through arenas including two nights at Madison Square Garden and Barclays Center before the European headline run takes Isella through Brussels, Berlin, Copenhagen, Oslo, Stockholm, Amsterdam, Paris, Manchester, Dublin, Glasgow, and London’s Roundhouse. A summer festival appearance at Hinterland in Iowa closes things out in July. For a 21-year-old independent artist, this is a genuinely extraordinary itinerary.

Isella’s rise has been built on the kind of creative and commercial independence that makes the scale of this tour even more remarkable. No major label infrastructure behind it, just music that connects hard enough to fill rooms of this size on its own terms. ‘Something Is a Shell’ is the document of where she is right now, and where she is right now is somewhere most artists spend entire careers trying to reach.

2026 Tour Dates:

April 18 – Washington, DC – Capital One Arena*

April 19 – Boston, MA – TD Garden*

April 21 – New York, NY – Madison Square Garden*

April 22 – New York, NY – Madison Square Garden*

April 24 – Brooklyn, NY – Barclays Center*

April 25 – Philadelphia, PA – Xfinity Mobile Arena*

May 5 – Brussels, Belgium – La Madeleine&

May 7 – Zürich, Switzerland – X-TRA&

May 8 – Luxembourg City, Luxembourg – den Atelier&

May 11 – Hamburg, Germany – Docks&

May 12 – Berlin, Germany – Columbiahalle&

May 14 – Copenhagen, Denmark – Vega&

May 15 – Oslo, Norway – Sentrum Scene&

May 16 – Stockholm, Sweden – Fryshuset Arenan&

May 19 – Prague, Czech Republic – SaSaZu&

May 20 – Vienna, Austria – Arena Wien&

May 22 – Munich, Germany – Tonhalle&

May 23 – Cologne, Germany – E-Werk&

May 25 – Amsterdam, Netherlands – Melkweg MAX&

May 26 – Amsterdam, Netherlands – Melkweg MAX&

May 27 – Paris, France – Élysée-Montmartre&

May 29 – Manchester, UK – Albert Hall&

May 30 – Birmingham, UK – O2 Institute Birmingham&

June 1 – Dublin, Ireland – The National Stadium&

June 3 – Glasgow, UK – O2 Academy Glasgow&

June 4 – London, UK – Roundhouse

July 31 – Saint Charles, IA – Hinterland

*Florence + The Machine support &Her Desire, The Nemesis Tour