We all knew it was coming, with the release of a couple of singles, but now it’s official: The Head and the Heart are back.
Today the band unveiled the release date and title of its upcoming album. The record is called “Aperture.” It is the band’s sixth studio album and its first for its new label Verve Forecast Records. It will be released on May 9.
In a press release announcing the album. group member Matty Gervais had this to say about the record:
“For me, Aperture represents the choice we all must make between resigning ourselves to darkness, or letting the light in and recognizing our own agency to do so. It feels relevant to the times, in that we’re literally choosing between authoritarianism vs. democracy. Ignorance vs. enlightenment on a macro scale, and complacency/cynicism vs. hope, empathy and perseverance on the micro scale. To me, it sums up a lot of what each of these songs is grappling with in some form and what we’ve collectively gone through as a band. It’s about choosing hope again and again, no matter how many times it may feel that you have lost it.”
To record the album the band spent equal parts of time in Seattle and Richmond, Va. and instead of working with a producer, the group decided to self-produce the album. It will be their first self-produced record since their smash self-titled debut.
The group also released the record’s third single “After the Setting Sun,” which you can listen to below. It follows the successful single “Arrows” and “Time With My Sins” off the album.
A tour behind the album is scheduled with its lone Seattle date being the biggest stage the band has performed on in its hometown. The show happens Aug. 16 when they open for The Lumineers at T-Mobile Park. To prepare for the show, you can preorder “Aperture” on the band’s website.
