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Release Date Friday 24th October 2025
All pre-orders will be dispatched/made ready for collection on that day.
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 24 th 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.
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