Death & Love

Liverpool’s indie powerhouse Circa Waves announce the second chapter of their brand new album Death & Love via Lower Third/[PIAS].

From being well-received at press, to strong UK radio support, Death & Love Pt.1 was both terrifying and liberating to write, and is the first instalment of urgent, 9-track hits of cathartic guitar-pop, serving as a powerful coping mechanism to help process frontman Kieran Shudall’s near-death experience. Both parts are set for physical release on the 24th of October.

The album sees supreme indie hits including a nice big slab of Strokes-y dancefloor destruction of ‘Like You Did Before’ to its first offering ‘We Made It’, as well as the extremely topical and longing ‘American Dream’.

Back in early 2023, Kieran received a call from doctors to say that the main artery in his heart was severely blocked. Two days later, he was lying on an operating table watching a wire being inserted into his heart to fix it. What followed was the cancelling of a lot of shows, working out a lot of medication, and most crucially, now having to navigate a new way of life.

And the results are quite simply stunning. Self-produced by Kieran, and engineered by Matt Wiggins (Adele, Lana Del Rey, Glass Animals), the nine tracks that make up Death & Love Pt.1 ooze nostalgia, and hark back to the sounds and themes that made Shudall want to pick up a guitar in the very first place.

Death & Love is an incredibly powerful snapshot in time - a reflection on a moment of true terror, and the joy of coming through the other side. It’s a brave and remarkable next step for a band in the finest form of their career.

2xLP - Standard Black Vinyl

2xLP - Indies Exclusive Blue and Pink Coloured Vinyl

CD

A1. American Dream
A2. Like You Did Before
A3. We Made It
A4. Le Bateau
A5. Hold It Steady

B1. Let's Leave Together
B2. Blue Damselfly
B3 Everything Changed
B4 Bad Guys Always Win

C1. Lost In The Fire
C2. Stick Around
C3. Cherry Bomb
C4. Ten Outta Ten
C5. Love Me For The Weekend

D1. Sunbeams
D2. Old Balloons
D3. Sweet Simple Thing
D4. Wave Goodbye