European Heartbreak
AMBER ARCADES

LP £22.00 Exc VAT: £18.33
  • SKU: HVNLP157C
  • UPC: 5414940009729
  • Release Date: 28 September 2018

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Label Review. 

2018 album also available in CD.

Our Overview. 

Amber Arcades, the moniker of the Dutch-born musician Annelotte De Graaf, announces details of her second album ‘European Heartbreak‘. A vast step forward from Amber Arcades’ critically acclaimed debut album ‘Fading Lines’, this selection of songs flit around Europe, from Berlin to Spain to the south of France. It’s European not just in lyrical theme but also in the sly sophistication of its music: songs that carry with them the air of opentopped cars on clifftop roads, of cocktails on the terrace at sunset. And then the lyrics undercut that sunny mood, artfully and skilfully.

Annelotte said the following about the album: “If it were called American Heartbreak, you wouldn’t bat an eye. Somehow calling it European Heartbreak feels far less comfortable, almost like a statement in itself. I’m Dutch, hence European. The focus of the record is Europe. As for Heartbreak, for me heartbreak symbolises any kind of falling apart of one of these concepts or stories we invent for ourselves, like romantic love, a sense of identity, nationality, an economic system. It’s kind of a universal thing in my mind.” 

‘European Heartbreak’ was recorded and coproduced in LA with Chris Cohen from Deerhoof and in Richmond, Virginia with Trey Pollard (Natalie Prass, The Waterboys, Bedouine), who oversaw horn and string overdubs from Spacebomb.

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