The Heartbreaks Confirm 'Hand On Heart' EP Release Date
Wednesday, 28 November 2012
Written by Elliott Batte
British indie-rockers The Heartbreaks have announced their return with brand new EP ‘Hand on Heart’, which is set for a release on February 4th.
Produced and mixed by the talented Tristan Ivemy (Frank Turner, Holloways etc), The Heartbreaks latest batch of new material is out early on next year and features a selection of newly recorded material with strings arranged by the legendary James Banbury of The Auteurs (U2, Depeche Mode, Bloc Party etc.)
Matthew, vocalist of The Heartbreaks explains the motive of the new release, “We’ve always had a kind of intrinsic sense of drama, but with the addition of strings we were able to truly articulate a feeling of being widescreen, cinematic. Rather than merely ‘sounding big’, we wanted to make music that, like those great Scott Walker, REM and Bunnymen records, was melodic, bold, elegiac... Something conceptual that would, even if just for an EP, take our music beyond its usual guitar and bass sound.”
James Branbury, who himself as part of The Auteurs in 1993 released the seminal ‘Live Acoustic EP’, speaks of the new version of ‘Hand of Heart’: “A great, emotional song. The build at the end is a tingling moment - always a good reaction when you're working on a track and hearing it over and over again.”
Having toured the UK in support of their debut album ‘Funtimes’, hit a number of summer festivals, and played a series of hysterically received shows in Japan following a #1 airplay single in ‘Delay, Delay’, the Morecambe four piece will be heading back to Japan in December for more live dates, before heading to Europe early in 2013.
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