The Head and the Heart are back with big news! The folk-pop favorites have officially announced their sixth studio album, Aperture, set to drop on May 9 via Verve Forecast. With it, the band is returning to their roots, embracing a DIY spirit by self-producing an album for the first time since their 2011 debut.
“I believe we’ve made a very great record together and, obviously, the title is an important aspect of the final product,” says the band’s Matty Gervais. “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.”
“After the Setting Sun” is their brand new single from the project, and it’s available to stream now.
To celebrate, The Head and the Heart are hitting the road, and lucky for us, they’re making a stop in Music City! The band will bring their heartfelt harmonies and soaring melodies to Ascend Amphitheater on July 18. Find out more about the tour and get tickets here.
Scroll down to see The Head and the Heart’s album cover for Aperture, along with the tracklist.
Featured Image Credit: Shervin Lainez
Aperture Tracklist:
- After The Setting Sun
- Time With My Sins
- Arrow
- Beg Steal Borrow
- Cop Car
- Blue Embers
- Fire Escape
- Pool Break
- Jubilee
- West Coast
- Finally Free
- Aperture
