Wildbirds & Peacedrums To Release Heartcore Album

Wildbirds & Peacedrums are Swedish duo Mariam Wallentin (vocals) and Andreas Werliin (drums), who are about to release their debut album Heartcore for The Leaf Label.

The twelve-tracker was originally released last year in the band's native country on Found You Recordings. Now on April 28th, the rest of the world will get the album as a CD and digital download.

Speaking of the duo The Leaf Label say they make an "extraordinary hybrid of spiritual pop, primal blues and ecstatic soul music. Seesawing between pagan rhythms and sparse, bewitching ballads, their self-produced debut is a declaration of intent: immediate, exhilarating, and just plain new."

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On their recording methods, Andreas says: "We always start with the lyrics that Mariam writes, then try to find one or two elements to fit around them - it can be a rhythm or a sound and then we go from there."

"For me it is such a release to write music this way - with Mariam's voice, I don't need to cover it up with a lot of other stuff - I can just play a simple rhythm and rely on the space/silence."

"We keep a lot of space in the recordings and somehow it seems that people fill in the rest themselves – an old jazz listener hears horns and basslines and a punk hears smashed guitars!"

Heartcore Track Listing:

1. Pony
2. The Way Things Go
3. Bird
4. I Can't Tell In His Eyes
5. Doubt/Hope
6. A Story From A Chair
7. The Battle In Water
8. The Ones That Should Save Me Get Me Down
9. Lost Love
10. The Window
11. Nakina
12. We Hold Each Other Song

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