THE WANDERING HEARTS
NEW ALBUM ‘MOTHER’ ON 22 MARCH
UK AND IRELAND TOUR MARCH & APRIL
LIVE AT THE ELECTRIC BRIXTON ON 12 APRIL
PRE-ORDER NEW ALBUM ‘MOTHER’
Photo credit: Stewart Baxter
British trio The Wandering Hearts will release their new album ‘Mother’ on 22nd March. Produced by Steve Milbourne, their Chrysalis Records debut is a handcrafted patchwork of folk-style storytelling, pop hooks and rock energy threaded together by their luminous signature harmonies. You could think of it as a long-lost seventies album originally made in Laurel Canyon and dusted off in some vintage London record store 50 years later. The Wandering Hearts, who recently completed an extensive North American tour and are currently performing at major radio stations across the US, have announced a UK and Ireland tour in March and April. Available now for pre-order, ‘Mother’ will be released digitally, on CD and LP, including exclusive, signed coloured vinyl and a limited number of test pressings. Taken from the new album, single ‘River To Cry’ is available now.
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Motherhood changes everything. Little moments assume a much greater significance, and every memory holds the potential to last forever. Responsibilities expand, yet joy does as well. The Wandering Hearts intimately explore this maternal transformation on their aptly titled third full-length offering ‘Mother’. The band, Tara Wilcox [vocals], A.J. Dean [vocals, acoustic guitar] and Francesca ‘Chess’ Whiffin [vocals, mandolin], chronicle this season of growth and change across eleven tracks.
“I was pregnant when we started making the record, and Tara was pregnant when we finished it,” notes Chess. “During the process, we really found ourselves as a band. Motherhood has helped us grow and find meaning. It brought our writing and performing to a different level.”
The group worked out of Chess’s home studio in Darlington, drawing on everything from folk to rock. Surrounded by guitars, a vintage piano and classic equipment, the music gestated in a room affectionately dubbed, “The Music Womb.” A.J. goes on, “This album started as a folk EP and grew into something entirely different. It has elements of folk, rock, blues, pop and more with our voices tying it all together. We were really just making an album for us. We think the result is the best music we’ve ever made.”
PRE-ORDER NEW ALBUM ‘MOTHER’
Earlier releases had brandished a bit of a subtle pop sheen. With ’Mother’, The Wandering Hearts peeled back this layer, sanded it down and stripped the sound to its bare essentials—captivating lyrics, organic instrumentation, and, as always, starkly powerful harmonies. In doing so, they realised their vision at its purest and most powerful. On ‘About America’, bright acoustic guitar and tambourine offset the heavy weight of an intense story given life by breathy harmonies. Echoes of a soft vocal line ripple over a steady beat on ‘Still Waters’, piano bookending the vulnerable refrain, “My body’s made up, but my mind is a mess, so hard to focus when I feel like this.”
Crystalline harmonies transmit a tender message uplifted even higher by organ on ‘Letter To Myself’. As electric guitar wails, ‘Hold Your Tongue’ pierces passive-aggressive “
‘MOTHER’ TRACK LISTING
1. About America
2. Still Waters
3. Tired
4. Letter To Myself
5. Hold Your Tongue
6. Waiting
7. Dance Again
8. Not Misunderstood
9. River To Cry
10. Will You Love Me
11. What Fools Believe
TOUR DATES
March
Tues 26 – Edinburgh, The Queen’s Hall
Weds 27 – Belfast, The Deer’s Head
Thurs 28 – Dublin, The Workman’s Cellar
Sun 31 – Birmingham, The Mill
April
Tues 2 – Manchester, Gorilla
Weds 3 – Leeds, Brudenell Social Club
Thurs 4 – Nottingham, Rescue Rooms
Fri 5 – Sheffield, Leadmill
Sun 7 – Bristol, The Fleece
Mon 8 – Brighton, Komedia
Tues 9 – Oxford, O2 Academy
Thurs 11 – Norwich, Arts Centre
Fri 12 – London, Electric Brixton
Sat 13 – Cardiff, Tramshed
Ticket link here: https://tix.to/TWHPR
