Liverpool indie favourites, Circa Waves have released their new single ‘Old Balloons’, the latest instalment from next month’s eagerly anticipated new album.
Death & Love Pt.2 is out October 24th via Lower Third/[PIAS]; the second part of 2025’s album double bill.
The whole 18-track album, including both parts, is available to pre-order on CD and double gatefold vinyl.
Frontman Kieran Shudall commented: “Old Balloons’ is about being homesick on our first US tours. It’s the strange feeling of leaving home with the hope of “making it in America’, but knowing that if you do you will be home even less.”
The two albums were produced by Shudall and recorded between a friend’s studio in Finsbury Park and the iconic RAK studios in London at the same time as Green Day and Muse.
Death & Love Pt.1 addressed Kieran’s lowest point, when he received a call from the 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.
Shows were cancelled and Kieran was adapting to a new way of life.
He says: “I’d written so much stuff after all the heart incident stuff – there was a release of creativity. There were more songs than I’d ever written before, in one furious writing period.
“This album feels like the more optimistic part of the two records. 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”.
Circa Waves will also return to play a special show at Assembly Hall, Worthing on Friday, October 24th, raising money for crucial NHS services.
Tickets are available HERE.
‘Old Balloons’ is out now – Listen here.
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