A couple of months back, Manchester quartet Pale Waves announced their fourth album, Smitten, would arrive Sept. 27 via Dirty Hit. The LP was produced by Iain Berryman (Wolf Alice, Florence and the Machine) and celebrates freedom, maturity, and queerness within the band.
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You can hear that in their latest single, “Gravity.” It’s a shimmery, guitar-forward tune that taps into Heather Baron-Gracie’s dreamy reverence for ’80s bands (think the Cure and Cocteau Twins) while exploring a relationship that made her feel dizzy. “‘Gravity’ is about a woman who chose Jesus over me,” the Pale Waves bandleader says. “It took the longest of all of the songs on the album to finish. I think we must have rewritten it millions of times to get it to where it is now.” It also comes with a video that stars Baron-Gracie’s partner, singer-songwriter Kelsi Luck, as they spend a tender day together.
See the video for “Gravity” below.
