Jehnny Beth tells us about her new record ‘You Heartbreaker, You’: “I wanted to reconnect with the urge of my time in Savages” Check out the pummelling new single ‘Broken Rib’ as Beth tells us about returning from her movie star life, being inspired by life on the road with Queens Of The Stone Age, and her plans for playing before Kneecap at Glastonbury. Beth is back with ‘You Heartbreaker, You’ due out on Friday August 29th via her new label of Fiction Records
“I wanted to make a punk record,” Beth said of the album. “I knew I wanted to make an aggressive sound and for the record to start with a scream on the song ‘Broken Rib’. This is how I felt: the world was broken, I was broken, but it’s not a sad thing. How can a song recompose those fragments? Is it like a Frankenstein beast? I’m not trying to polish it or hide it.”
The former Savages singer turned solo star, TV presenter, radio host and movie actor released her first record under her own name with the acclaimed ‘To Love Is To Live‘ back in 2020. Since then, the French polymath has released a collaborative album with Primal Scream icon Bobby Gillespie, seen her new music TV show Echoes (a reinvigorated European answer to Later… With Jools Holland) go from strength to strength, and reached new audiences with her celebrated and high-profile roles in films including Paris, 13th District and Anatomy Of A Fall.
She continued: “I’m very proud to release a guitar punk rock record today. You know when Savages were releasing our second record “Adore Life”, 2016] and in the middle of our high, I was told that rock music was dead on this BBC.
‘Obsession’ comes from Jehnny Beth’s new album ‘You Heartbreaker, You.’ Out 29 August.
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