MISS CHAIN & THE BROKEN HEELS
NEW ALBUM ‘STORMS’ OUT ON 1 DECEMBER ON WILD HONEY RECORDS
HEAR ALBUM TITLE SINGLE HERE
Miss Chain & The Broken Heels will release their new album ‘Storms‘ on 1st December, via Wild Honey Records.
Following the release of first single ‘Wild Wind‘, today they share the album title track ‘Storms‘. Lead singer Astrid explains: “Psychotherapy enriched and still nourishes who I am. It also gave me a different perspective on living in this world, embracing complexity, curiosity and hope. ‘Storms’ talks about the need to jump inside of yourself, inside of relationships and into your past to live a different present. The only way is through, and if you don’t become aware of some stuff, you probably risk repeating endless dysfunctional loops, acting well-known old scripts that sometimes you didn’t even write yourself”.
LISTEN TO ‘STORMS’ HERE
A charming blonde psychologist with a passion for rock’n’roll. A troubled singer-songwriter troubadour seeking eternal free drinks and breaking hearts. A Sky Walker-lookalike nerd busy booking shows and releasing records with his punk label. A curly young genius in A.I. programming and analogue drumming. Together, they form the most un-hype, out-of-time and out-of-style garage band, Miss Chain & The Broken Heels.
It all started as a solo/side project of singer/guitarist Astrid Dante: inspired by her recent discovery of late 70’s obscure Power-Pop gems, she recorded her rock’n’roll songs with a drum machine and a fake band. During one of the punk-rock shows booked by bass player Franz Barcella, she partied so hard she broke her heels. That night though, she found a real band excited to back her up and tour the world with her. Since then, two full-length records (the first one with their power-pop dream label, Screaming Apple), many 7” singles, and even more tours, parties, food discoveries, small stages, big stages, no stages, big crowds, no crowds, played with bands they had posters on their teen walls, infinite drives, injuries, broken vans, planes, many failures, great satisfactions.
They’re one of those bands forever in between. Too pop for punks, too punk for pop. Too clean for garage nostalgia, and too weird for Americana. Hard to classify, their sound is a mixture of Sixties Beatles-esque melodies, sunshine-pop atmospheres, punk attitude, country, rhythm and blues, surrounded by dreamy landscapes, folk-revival lyricism and sometimes even bordering on psychedelia. All the records they grew up with, or bought during their travels, are in the cocktail.
‘Storms’, their brand new full-length record, is a step forward to this brave non-concept concept. A labor of DIY, recorded by their former drummer Brown Barcella and Alessio Lonati, produced and mastered by their best friend Riccardo Zamboni and released on their own Wild Honey Records.
Photo credit: Ludovica Belotti