NATIVE HARROW release new single 'Heart of Love' ahead of new album 'Old Kind of Magic' released on 28 October
NATIVE HARROW have today released new single “Heart Of Love”, a gorgeous track lifted from their new album Old Kind Of Magic which arrives 28 October via Loose Music, listen/pre-order the album here.
To launch their new album, Native Harrow will be embarking on an extensive in-store tour, which will include an acoustic performance and record signing at an array of the UK’s finest independent record shops. Beginning on 28 October at Rough Trade West, the full list of dates and times are listed here.
NATIVE HARROW - IN-STORE TOUR:
October 28 Rough Trade West, London @ 6pm
October 29 Union Music Store, Lewes @ 2pm
November 1 David’s Music, Letchworth @ 6pm
November 2 Truck Records, Oxford @ 6pm
November 3 Jumbo Records, Leeds @ 6pm
November 4 Spinning Discs, Sheffield @ 6pm
November 5 Vinyl Tap, Huddersfield @ 2pm
November 6 Jacaranda, Liverpool @ 5:30pm
November 17 Eel Pie Records, Twickenham @ 6pm
November 18 Sound Knowledge, Marlborough @ 7pm
November 19 Hundred Records, Romsey @ 2pm
November 20 Vinilo Record Store, Southampton @ 6pm
November 21 Pie & Vinyl, Southsea @ 1pm
Old Kind of Magic is the fifth long-player from Native Harrow - Stephen Harms and Devin Tuel - and arrives two years after they left Pennsylvania for a new life in Sussex. The couple initially lived in Brighton, where they recorded the album, before settling in rural Sussex, where they filmed the bucolic video for “Heart Of Love”.
“Our “Heart of Love” world was built out of love and gentleness,” comments Devin of the track. “A song that slowly drifted its way to me and sunk in deep, it sings of the passion in soulmate love. The deep love that you may search the world over for. The love that shelters you from the weathered winds of time and space. Buoyed by the love freely shared between Paul & Linda McCartney in a series of home videos they shot during their time living and loving in Scotland in the early 70s, we wanted to share, for the first time, a glimpse into the love we share. A connectedness that no doubt informs our art, our path, and our wild ways. We spent an evening (like many others) playing, walking, and basking in the fields near our Sussex home.”
With Old Kind Of Magic, Harms and Tuel have self-produced a work that is simultaneously their most sweepingly expansive and delicately intimate album to date. It is at moments revelatory, and at others beautifully heartbreaking; a showcase of Tuel’s finest writing. The pair have crafted an album that places itself distinctly between the two musicians and the tapestry of sounds they are regarded for.
The couple enlisted Alex Hall (their collaborator for 2019’s Happier Now and 2020’s Closeness) to add his signature drums and percussion throughout, along with an incendiary piano part on “Used To Be Free.” Joe Harvey-Whyte added his celestial pedal steel to “Heart of Love” and “I Remember” and violinist Georgina Leach layered a one-woman string section over “As It Goes” and a galvanising quartet on “Long Long Road”. Mixing was completed by Hall at Reliable Recorders in Chicago, IL and the record was mastered by Guy Davie at Electric Mastering in London.
Native Harrow Old Kind Of Magic, Track List:
01 Song For Joan
02 Old Kind Of Magic
03 Heart Of Love
04 I Was Told
05 Used To Be Free
06 As It Goes
07 Magic Eye
08 I Remember
09 Long Long Road
10 Find A Reason
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