Late Transmissions / The Heart Wants What It Wants LP / Out NOW!
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LATE TRANSMISSIONS STARRING EVE QUARTERMAIN
THE HEART WANTS WHAT IT WANTS LP // OUT NOW
LATE TRANSMISSIONS featuring EVE QUARTERMAIN have released their debut album The Heart Wants What It Wants via Music Saves on limited edition hand-numbered red vinyl with accompanying A4 lyric booklet and signed A5 numbered art print – one of five random designs – jewel case CD with 12 page lyric booklet and on all digital platforms.
The album features the three previously released singles:
Behind Late Transmissions are David Balfe and David Hughes – two friends who last played together in the Merseyside post-punk scene. Balfe, playing with Big In Japan and The Teardrop Explodes, went on to be a producer, publisher and founder of both Zoo Records and Food Records, signing Blur and Echo & The Bunnymen among many others.
Hughes played with OMD before transitioning into a highly successful long-term career scoring TV and film, including Lock, Stock And Two Smoking Barrels, before reuniting with Balfe, his former band mate in proto-synth act Dalek I Love You, out of a shared love for the orchestra-led classic pop of the likes of Scott Walker, John Barry, Shirley Bassey and Dusty Springfield.
The undoubted star of the album, however, is the incredible vocal talent of sensational discovery Eve Quartermain. This torch-singing femme fatale combines angry power with cracked vulnerability and a noirish fatalism and hers is the pounding heart of the album. The lush cinematic arrangements that define the sound of Late Transmissions paint a landscape of longing and loss, but it is the plaintive rawness and sombre depths in Eve’s delivery that carries the weight of this record. This is an album for those who understand that no matter how bleak life may become there is consolation, redemption even, to be had from singing your truth, loudly and proudly.
Eve sings to those trapped in this world’s shadowy dead ends, to the many for whom love is more often a source of misery than happiness. To all of us that hurt. Her voice makes plain that she herself has lived out such tales too often. Indeed The Heart Wants What It Wants is that rare thing – a collection of songs that drip with sorrow and anger – each track a scar born of damage and broken hopes, each defeat providing fuel for the fire that’s burning within. It’s an intimate glimpse into a soul who has taken all that life has thrown at her to emerge bruised but unbeaten. A woman who rises despite it all.