Out today Jane Weaver reveals brand new single ‘Romantic Worlds’ from her new record ‘Love In Constant Spectacle’ out 5th April on Fire Records and ahead of her UK tour beginning in April.
New single ‘Romantic Worlds’ is an elaborate love song where exuberant synths explore brief encounters and our perceptions of modern romance.
“I wanted to write a really over the top love song, it’s kind of tongue in cheek and about romance and brief encounters with a wonky synth. It’s based on a ‘real life’ date after meeting online, how this changes from generation to generation and how romance is perceived now.”
Jane Weaver
Accompanied by a fantasy inspired, hazy romantic new music video, it sees a couple transported to another dimension where they are challenged in an otherworldly universe to use their character skills in order to escape.
Is it a compatibility test? What realm will they enter next?
“Growing up watching the 80s Dungeons and Dragons, I was endlessly frustrated by the number of times the group nearly escaped back to the ‘real world’, only to be denied by that stupid unicorn. This video presented an opportunity to finally let the characters make their getaway. The ‘realm’ was one of my first forays into the world of AI. I was really happy with how it interpreted the footage and threw up some weird and wonderful results.” adds Director, Nick Farrimond
Produced by John Parish (PJ Harvey, Aldous Harding) sharing Weaver’s process in the surrounds of Rockfield Studios and Geoff Barrow’s Invada studio. ‘Love In Constant Spectacle’ evokes spectacular imagery and distils the artists’ vision in its purest form, elevating her inimitable sound and poetic vision to new heights. Recapturing the melancholy of her early work whilst propelling it forward, she sketches scenes as we watch new colours, shapes and languages emerge and fill the frame.
For a musician who has persistently created her own worlds, this new album may be more conceptual in its execution than initially meets the eye. Taking cues from international cinema, it sees Jane experimenting with new writing techniques through randomizing and translating language. More escapist than its predecessor, it draws on themes of mortality and fragility, of how we ground and prepare ourself for loss. This is all framed within its own universe, where themes are articulated through abstract means, where language is cut up and reconfigured to offer new perspectives on the experiences that shape us.
The foundations of Weaver’s sound are still evident – lush motorik drums, pulsating bass, custom modded synths and exotic fuzz pedals – but the stream is awash with scrabble piece poetry and Letraset lullabies leading to lush escapism, the free abandon that you’d associate with free jazz and the avant-garde.
Love In Constant Spectacle is otherworldly, it is both intimate yet distant, a surrealist interpretation of the foundations that make us human – the stories and landscapes it paints are habitats of their own. A voyage into undisclosed pastures, it’s a heartfelt manifesto from an artist that continues to boundlessly evolve with each chapter in her career.
“Genuinely different and exhilarating” ★★★★ The Guardian
‘Love In Constant Spectacle’ is out 5th April. Available for pre-order in Deluxe Edition Cold Foil Gold Effect/Gloss Sleeve with Reverse Die Cut Sleeve, Rough Trade Exclusive in Clear Vinyl with Reverse Die Cut Sleeve, Classic Black Vinyl with Reverse Die Cut Sleeve & Gatefold CD.
2024 Tour
10 April: Rough Trade East, London (Acoustic + Signing)
18 April: Brudenell Social Club, Leeds, UK
19 April: Trinity Centre, Bristol , UK
20 April: Arts Club, Liverpool, UK
21 April: Castle & Falcon, Birmingham, UK
23 April: Oran Mor, Glasgow, UK
24 April: The Glasshouse, Gateshead, UK
26 April: Band on the Wall, Manchester, UK
28 April: Rescue Rooms, Nottingham, UK
29 April: Junction, Cambridge, UK
30 April: Wedgewood Rooms , Portsmouth, UK
01 May: Brighton, Concorde 2, UK
02 May: Scala, London, UK
09 May: Whelan’s, Dublin, Ireland
10 May: Róisín Dubh, Galway, Ireland
11 May: Dolans, Limerick, Ireland
12 May: Ulster Sports Bar, Belfast, UK
23-26 May: Bearded Theory, Catton Hill, Derbyshire, UK
