Pale Waves have today released ‘Fall To Pieces’, premiered as Annie Mac’s Hottest Record in The World. ‘Fall To Pieces’ is the final track to be taken from the band’s forthcoming second album Who Am I? ahead of its highly anticipated release this Friday, February 12, via Dirty Hit.
Discussing the single, frontwoman Heather Baron-Gracie says “It’s easy to fall into the same patterns in a relationship, which can lead you to have the same argument over and over. ‘Fall To Pieces’ is about going through that constant cycle of arguing and then making up. It can be hard to break that pattern – sometimes you wonder if you ever will.”
‘Fall To Pieces’ follows on from ‘You Don’t Own Me’, a single that Baron-Gracie says is “for women about what it’s like to be a woman in this world. How society depicts, judges and criticises women on a daily basis.” Prior to this, the band have given fans a taste of the album with singles ‘Easy’, ‘Change’ and ‘She’s My Religion’ – a deeply personal single for Baron-Gracie who wanted to represent a same sex relationship between two women in it’s true form without hiding behind the cliches of oversexualisation or playful experimentation.
Who Am I? was recorded primarily in Los Angeles alongside producer Rich Costey (Muse, Foo Fighters, Sigur Rós), before the Coronavirus lockdown in 2020 forced the making of the album to go virtual, with Heather and Ciara remaining in LA and the rest of the band returning home to record their parts in their bedrooms.
The album acts as the Pale Waves manifesto – inspiring inclusivity, self-discovery, and the notion of being whoever the hell you want to be. On the making of the album, Heather says “for me, music and art is for people not to feel so alone and isolated. I want to be that person my fans look up to and find comfort in.”
Formed of frontwoman Heather Baron-Gracie (she/her); drummer Ciara Doran (they/them); guitarist Hugo Silvani (he/him) and bassist Charlie Wood (he/him), Pale Waves released their debut album My Mind Makes Noises in September 2018, by which time they had already won the NME Under The Radar award, made the BBC sound of 2018 shortlist and toured with Dirty Hit label mates The 1975. When the album charted at 8 on the UK album chart, Pale Waves were seen as more than a breakthrough act and instead one of the most important emerging indie-pop bands in Britain.
Last week, the band also announced their 2022 UK tour, kicking off in Bristol and culminating in a huge hometown show in Manchester. Tickets go on general sale on Friday (February 12).
Who Am I? tracklisting:
- Change
- Fall To Pieces
- She’s My Religion
- Easy
- Wish U Were Here
- Tomorrow
- You Don’t Own Me
- I Just Needed You
- Odd Ones Out
- Run To
- Who Am I?
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