Manchester’s Pale Waves have announced their fourth studio album, Smitten, which is out Sept. 20 via Dirty Hit.
They’ve also shared “Perfume,” a sapphic, ’80s-schooled goth-pop song that vocalist Heather Baron-Gracie calls “the perfect introduction into the new world we’ve created.” The track centers around being head over heels with a person overtop strains of the Cure and the Cranberries and comes with a surreal video that features the band jamming out in a vibrant labyrinth garden.
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“I found myself writing about not just a certain time period but my whole life, from years ago,” Baron-Gracie says of the record. “When I fall in love, I fall deep, and it’s interesting to me that you can feel so fascinated and smitten with someone, and then they can become a total stranger. So, I feel like Smitten really summarized perfectly what I felt for others at a certain point.”
See the video for “Perfume,” plus the album artwork and tracklist, below.
Pale Waves Smitten tracklist
- “Glasgow”
- “Not a Love Song”
- “Gravity”
- “Thinking About You”
- “Perfume”
- “Last Train Home”
- “Kiss Me Again”
- “Miss America”
- “Hate to Hurt You”
- “Seeing Stars”
- “Imagination”
- “Slow”