New Year’s Eve is the debut EP by English Indie Pop band Pale Waves. The song “New Years Eve” was released through Dirty Hit Records as the band’s third single with the EP to be released on 18th January 2018.
The song was originally released on 7th November 2017 as a download and made available on streaming services the same day . The EP will have three tracks with the full track listing to be announced. It will also be pressed on a limited edition transparent heavyweight red 12″ vinyl, On December 12th 2017 the second single “My Obsession” was released to radio.
Ethereal dreampop from this BBC Sound of 2018 longlist nominated Manchester quartet, who released their debut single ‘There’s A Honey’ was produced by Matty Healy and George Daniel of The 1975 – with whom they toured the US. 80s new wave fused with rock-fused pop. Their debut EP, ‘New Year’s Eve’, will be released in January 2018.
Anyone who’s been paying attention to the Dirty Hit label in the last year would know that virtually everything they touch is turning into gold. Their roster includes The 1975, whose epic second album ‘I love it when you sleep…’ they released last year; The Japanese House, now one of the hottest new prospects in the game; and Superfood, who recently made a stonking comeback. Any sign of new music coming from Dirty Hit gets anyone in the know just a little bit giddy.
Their latest signings are Manchester indie-pop newbies Pale Waves, and they dropped their massive first single in late 2017 ‘There’s A Honey’ – which features production by George and Matty of The 1975. As expected, the song’s subject matter is strikingly intimate and relatable (“I would give you my body, but am I sure that you want me?“), but is packaged into a chorus that’s so catchy, you wonder how it hasn’t been written before.
The alt-pop band’s new video is a beautiful, “uncomfortable, voyeuristic experience,” the track is taken from their forthcoming New Year’s Eve EP.
Pale Waves new video for ‘My Obsession’, and drenched in gloom, it’s a shadowy visual fitting the song’s plunge into infatuation. The video shows the band’s Heather in the bath with a mannequin – as you do – and to be honest the whole thing is creepy as fuck. “I wanted to create an uncomfortable, voyeuristic experience for the viewer,” she said. “To make them feel they are intruding on a world they shouldn’t be a part of. Ultimately, it is a representation of desperation, loneliness and grief.”
New Manchester band Pale Waves have been taking the wold by storm. Critics have been awed by their new single Television Romance’. “A shimmering, summer-tinged indie banger – one that will no doubt end up filling venues up and down the country when their next tour is announced.”
Dirty Hit, the record label founded by The 1975’s manager, Jamie Oborne, as a vehicle for the band he discovered as Cheshire teenagers. Now it’s home to some of the UK’s most exciting bands, from the established, such as Wolf Alice, to rising stars such as The Japanese House – whose ‘Pools To Bathe In’ EP was produced by 1975 frontman Matty Healy and drummer George Daniel – and new signing No Rome. There’s a particular up-and-coming band that Healy has really taken under his wing, taking them on tour in the States, co-producing their first two singles and directing the video for the second, ‘Television Romance’ – and that band is Pale Waves.
They are about to launch a headline tour. Catch them at The Cellar Bar in Oxford, The Cookie at Leicester and Bristol Thekla during Feb/March 2018.
Pale Waves have shared the music video for latest single ‘Television Romance’. The song, which was released last month, has now got an official video – which has been directed by The 1975 frontman Matty Healy. It’s the band’s second single , The band recently played sets at Reading & Leeds Festivals.
The single was also produced by Healy, as was their debut single ‘There’s A Honey’, which we called a “a shimmering, addictive indie anthem in the making”. A full EP is due on Dirty Hit Records later this Autumn. The video is also Healy’s directorial debut.
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