The WAEVE announce new EP with anti-Valentine’s single ‘Love Is All Ache’
The WAEVE have introduced their newest EP ‘Everlasting’ and have shared its lead anti-Valentine’s single ‘Love Is All Ache’.
Produced by James Ford (Arctic Monkeys, Blur), the three-track EP is ready for launch on March 14 through Transgressive and may be pre-ordered / pre-saved here. The primary taster of the venture comes within the type of ‘Love Is All Ache’.
“Oh! Love is all ache / Thought I’d escaped it / However I want it once more / It’s laborious, it’s laborious / It’s more durable than hell,” sing the duo – comprised of Blur guitarist Graham Coxon and The Pipettes member Rose Elinor Dougall – within the chours, describing the reaitlies of Love over throbbing electro synths.
Directed by Simon Leeder, the music’s accompanying music video was shot solely on black & white 8mm movie in a nod to the post-punk synth-era aesthetic of the late Eighties. It captures The WAEVE on location round Southmere Lake at Thamesmead, South East London’s iconic Brutalist property.
‘Everlasting’ serves as a observe as much as The WAEVE’s previous two albums, 2023’s self-titled and 2024’s ‘Metropolis Lights’.
The WAEVE’s ‘Everlasting’ EP tracklist is:
1. ‘Love Is All Ache’
2. ‘It’s The Hope That Kills You’
3. ‘Everlasting’
Beforehand chatting with NME about their household life and “the horrors of the world” formed their LP ‘Metropolis Lights’, Dougall mentioned: “It’s nonetheless a miracle that this venture and this life that we share has occurred in any respect – as a result of it was all triggered by this one tiny present that we determined to do [in 2004 at Islington’s the Buffalo Bar]. Had both of us determined to not do it, then none of this could have existed.
“Generally, the fragility of how issues come into being generally is a bit horrifying. So simply, this stuff may not have occurred. It’s laborious to not full like there’s some sort of increased energy at play to direct the trajectory of your life.”
She additionally spoke about their love for his or her daughter Eliza Could and motherhood, and shared: “We’ve put her identify out into the world and I’m clearly very protecting of exposing her in any option to anyone, however I did have a giant dialog with myself if that was one thing I needed to share within the music we had been making. It will have been unimaginable for me to not interact with that actuality, as a result of The WAEVE has at all times been a possibility to replicate on the lives that we’re experiencing.”
She continued: “It’s necessary to convey gentle to the expertise of motherhood, and what it’s prefer to be a mom on the similar time. It’s a extremely underrepresented factor. It had such a huge effect on the way in which that I perceived myself and the method of creating music. Eliza is such an enormous a part of our lives, and I couldn’t see how I may ignore that. I hope likes it when she’s older. I can simply think about her going, ‘What is that this shit?’”
In different information, The WAVE are set to embark on a UK headlining tour which is able to kick off on March 16 in Glasgow earlier than making stops in Manchester, Sheffield, Bristol and London. Take a look at a full record of dates beneath and go to here to buy tickets.
The WAEVE 2025 UK tour dates are:
MARCH
16 – St. Luke’s, Glasgow
18 – Academy 2, Manchester
19 – The Leadmill, Sheffield
20 – KOKO, London
21 – Trinity, Bristol
AUGUST
22 – Colchester Citadel Summer time Collection (w/ JAMES)
24 – Victorious Pageant, Portsmouth