The Heartbreaks return this month with the first track from their as yet untitled second album.  Last week the Morecambe four-piece played two sold out shows in London and Manchester, where tracks from the new album were performed live for the first time. 

Their debut album ‘Funtimes’, saw the band build on the buzz of early releases to deliver an album that had 'Dazed' declaring “every song is capable of being a single” and 'Louderthanwar' acclaiming “a chiming, shimmering pop gem”. To cap it all, lead single 'Delay, Delay' topped a Fly magazine poll for the single of the year with over 6,000 votes. 



For their second album, they have set out, and succeeded, to create a riposte to the all-conquering Age of Beige the UK currently finds itself in. A record that demands and rewards repeated listens, it is - through rousing Ennio Morricone strings, Echo and the Bunnymen atmospherics and arch lyrical observations - something new, majestic and, in short, not normal.

To those in the know, The Heartbreaks always had this in them. Rather than some hokey ‘change of direction’, the transition feels like a natural one. It is the work of a band who have grown impressively in seclusion from an increasingly homogenised Top 40 and returned with something completely focused, unforced, and quite wonderful.