Heavy Heart seal their return by examining tortured love in “Dowsabel”

After taking a sabbatical following their ambitious twelve releases in twelve months in 2016 - what would later be comprised into their debut album Keepsake - the London four-piece have recouped and recalibrated their sound into a (somehow) even more potent mix.

Mournful strings introduce the heady tale, layers of sombre basslines and lucid guitar tones weave to create a dreamy tapestry of sadness.

“'Dowsabel’ is an old English word for sweetheart, and this song is about a love affair, but it’s a bittersweet, broken and defeated one,” share the band on the tale behind their new track, a feeling perfectly surmised in the softly-knowing coos of vocalist and guitarist Anna Vincent as she sings of a complicit angle to the toxicity.

“It’s about the jagged edges and the blood we draw; the damage that we do to each other in the name of love. Living in a room filled with dust, dying flowers, and the ghosts of unspoken words, we’re together but alone, too afraid to walk away, prisoners in an unlocked cage”.