Circa Waves Unveil Second Chapter With Brand New Album - Death & Love Pt.2
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Released in January 2025, Death & Love Pt.1 was all about Circa Waves starting from scratch and starting over after frontman Kieran’s lowest point with his brush with mortality. In early 2023, he 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 cancellation of many shows, adjusting to a lot of medication, and, most crucially, now having to navigate a new way of life.
This new record became a creative outlet for the singer and one of their most intricate pieces of work to date. However, one album wasn’t enough to house all that would come flooding from such a profound experience.
“I’d written so much stuff after all the heart incident stuff – there was a release of creativity,” Shuddall explains. “There were more songs than I’d ever written before, in one furious writing period.
It almost feels like if the first record was before the operation and death and fear of dying, then one is coming through the other side. It’s about love, life, survival and euphoria”.
The track listing for the album has been released as below:
Lost In The Fire
Stick Around
CherryBomb
Ten Outta Ten
Love Me For The Weekend
Sunbeams
Old Balloons
Sweet Simple Thing
Wave Goodbye
The first single Cherry Bomb is out now, which featured in our Weekly Round Up. The track gives a great indication of what’s coming with part 2.
If that wasn’t enough for you, both parts are coming together for a huge 18-track album on CD and gatefold vinyl on October 24th.
