All aboard Alessi’s Ark for a third studio album Love Is The Currency, released on  October 27. An album of self-discovery and a call to self-realisation Love Is The Currency is epitomised by lead track ‘Cut The Cord’.  A song written about Alessi’s own experience, unearthing fear and breaking free, to seek redemption in music, art and beauty, ‘Cut The Cord’ motors on a breezy groove with a host of hooks and enchanting vocals.

“The core theme of Love is the Currency is our limitless ability to heal one another though music, healthy love, healing frequencies and working through previously unprocessed grief.” says Alessi, explaining the driving force of her new album.  “With Cut The Cord, I wanted to make a song that could encourage people to save themselves from fear and the grip of toxicity's many guises.”

Produced by long term Maccabees engineer Jago Jago, and written in large part with Will White (brother of Maccabees’ Felix and Hugo), Alessi describes her new album as a “family affair”, blessed with the care of many friends and brothers.  Jago Jago’s brother Memby appears on drums throughout the album, and Felix White - whose recommendation brought Alessi, Jag and Will together - plays guitar on the single ‘Wives’.

A first taste of her new album released earlier this year, ‘Wives’ hinted at an evolution from the folk pop of her early releases, to the more ambitious and abstract palettes of the Cocteau Twins or Charlotte Gainsbourg. From uploading home recordings to Myspace to working with Bright Eyes in Nebraska and touring the U.K. with Jenny Lewis and M.Ward it’s been a long and winding road for Alessi which has no doubt shaped her songs. Her new album is full of very personal tales, self discovery and shared experience, told in a mixture of sonic settings; the California desert, alpine air, ocean sprays and the highland bothies all evoked in unfussy yet expansive production. 

Track listing:

1) Portal

2) Cut the Cord

3) River

4) Love Travels

5) Lovefly

6) Stray

7) Desert

8) Wives

9) DLD (Door Light Dream)

10) On till Dawn

Live dates:

July 27th - ‘Music for London', Grenfell Benefit show at St. Stephen's Church, Shepherds Bush

August 27th -Stroud Fringe Festival 

Oct 25th -Album Release Party - Paper Vintage Dress, London

In August, East London art-rockers Arrows Of Love will release their eagerly anticipated second album, PRODUCT, an eleven track masterpiece and an epic amalgamation of blisteringly heavy guitars and earnest, heartfelt lyrics. Here, the collective weave a world which is in equal parts powerful and vulnerable, where poetry meets pure punk attitude. The LP was produced by Mikko Gordon (Thom Yorke, Gaz Combes), in the studio he built himself at Goldsmiths University, and mastered by Bob Weston of Shellac. Lead track ‘Signal’ was also given a mix by celebrated engineer Margo Broom (Fat White Family).

As with their acclaimed 2014 debut, Everything’s Fucked, the album is a striking and beautiful critique on modern life, politics, philosophy and the fight against apathy. PRODUCT is a call to arms, even more so than previous outputs, one which has been forged over the years and created by their own circumstance.

The five-piece, lead by co-writers Nima and Nuha, recently found themselves backed by the UK's highly competitive PRS Momentum Music Fund. After accepting an invite from CMJ Music Marathon the band confirmed a string of US dates, followed by a headline London show with Parallel Lines before the album recording began. 

Arrows Of Love also have a reputation amongst fans as something of a live phenomenon. Originally aligned with the early East London wave of bohemian rock bands, it was their fierce performances and creativity that has taken them across the globe, to the likes of SXSW and End of the Road, to sharing stages with the likes of The Fall, Buzzcocks, British Sea Power, 80’s Matchbox B-Line Disaster, The Wytches and many more. Drawing comparisons to the discordant, emotive musicianship of Sonic Youth to the raw power of McLusky, this second LP sees a band fully diversified, and truly unique.