Late Transmissions – 'The Heart Wants What It Wants' Album Review

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Tracklist:

Avenging Angel
The Heart Wants What It Wants
Lightning Never Strikes Twice
I Ruin Everything
A Little Drop of Poison
I’m Done With London
He’ an Unexploded Bomb
Starlight Lounge
The Kiss That Kills
What Went Wrong
She Finds Love Wherever She Can

I don’t think I’ve ever heard an album like this one. I’m not sure there’s been anything like this in a long time, if ever.

It’s out via Music Saves, on the 1^st of May, time for a bit of pre-saving, I think! There is also an album launch show on the 30^th of April that you may want to go to.

It’s an album of Torch songs with both a jazz and trip hop fee to it but, and I can’t stress this enough, it’s an amazing new voice that you really need to hear.

Two thirds of the band are not new to music (OMD and Teardrop Explodes are on their resumes) but lead singer Eve Quatermain is brand new and what a voice she has!

This could be to the soundtrack to every cool 1960’s film you’ve ever seen but also every French art house film you’ve ever seen while also being the greatest bond soundtrack you’ve never heard.

The songs themselves are about love, loss, longing, ecstasy and quite possibly every other emotional gamut there is.

Eve could probably sing the instruction manual for putting together a set of shelving and I would still listen, this is tremendous. I don’t think I can praise this enough. The title track could be a classic 50’s/60’s torch ballad, next song 'Lightening Never Strikes Twice' could be Sneaker Pimps at times and yet at other times Annie Lennox at her most sensuous.

I have actually struggled to review this album as it’s so different to anything else I’ve ever listened to, what I do know is that this could be massive. We are in period when music seems to be pushing some boundaries, trying some new things but this takes us off in a new and very interesting direction, much more of this please!

There is a richness, a timbre, a sense of longing, of determination and yet of vulnerability to Eve’s voice which means I think we are hearing the next great voice to come out of the UK.

This album won’t be for everyone but if you’re willing to listen to something new, something exciting, something that you can put on late at night, pour yourself a nice malt (I’d suggest something from Islay) and sink back into that wingback armchair you’ve always thought about owning and just let yourself become immersed in this world that’s been created.

I don’t think there’s a song on this album I couldn’t listen to again and again; they are all so good, so atmospheric, so intense and yet so chilled. I think I may be slightly infatuated with Eve’s voice. Think Dusty Springfield meets Beth Gibbons meets Edith Piaf and that’s still not quite right.

Love the album, love the songs, love the voice, more, much more please!