Songfacts®:

• "Sun Has Set" is Beabadoobee's emphatic kiss-off song, built on the idea that some endings are exactly that: endings. A sunrise invites optimism; a sunset politely informs you that the day's business is concluded. Likewise, the relationship at the center of this song isn't entering a new phase or evolving into friendship. It's over, the emotional furniture has been thrown out, and there's no point checking the lost-and-found.
  
  When I say, "We'll never be friends"
  I mean, we'll never pretend
  
  Beabadoobee rejects the modern breakup ritual of softening the blow with a false offer of friendship. "This song has this petty tunnel vision," she explained. "It's like, I hate you. You're gonna stay here and listen to how much I hate you. Because I never got to say that."
• Beabadoobee hasn't named the specific person behind the song, but she admits the track was fueled by a lingering anger she brought into the studio while recording her fourth album, Pylon. "I was angry and I had to talk about it," she told BBC Radio 1's Jack Saunders. "Just because I'm 26 doesn't mean I'm still a petty girl."
• Beabadoobee wrote "Sun Has Set" with producer Gianluca Buccellati (Arlo Parks, SZA) and Shane Moran, guitarist and songwriter for influential post-hardcore outfit Title Fight. Moran's presence is significant - his background in punk and Midwest emo is all over the song's sharp-edged guitar work.
  
  Beabadoobee, Buccellati, and Jason Vance Harris shared production, resulting in one of the heaviest recordings of her career.
• Jake Erland, Beabadoobee's partner and longtime visual collaborator, directed the video. It places us directly in the POV of the person she is raging against, featuring intense physical confrontation, pushing, shoving, and Beabadoobee smashing car windows, reinforcing that the sun has decisively set on their relationship. It's difficult to misread a relationship once someone has started redecorating your vehicle with blunt force.
• "Sun Has Set" arrived on June 24, 2026, as the lead single from Pylon, laying the groundwork for her new sonic era. She named the record after the massive electricity towers she spotted from her tour bus, viewing them as symbols of home and connection while traveling.
  
  The new music heavily embraces '90s alternative rock, Midwest emo, and grunge. "I missed mosh pits," she told Jack Saunders. "I was really deciding what I wanted to do as an artist and what I wanted to make... I've been morphing into that person [her 19-year-old self with blue hair], been more comfortable in accepting that person more."
  
  In that sense, "Sun Has Set" is more than the end of one relationship: it's the beginning of a louder, rougher chapter for Beabadoobee herself.