I Heart Sharks announced their new album ‘Hideaway’ for a November 11 release a little while ago. Today sees the launch of new single ‘Lost Forever’. ‘Lost Forever' is a nostalgic trip back to a time when you didn't swipe to fall in love and lonely faces weren't illuminated by phones at night. As innocent as it is simple, I Heart Sharks' late-80s tinted, Cure-esque second single stops catchy being a bad word and could fill the Stranger Things-sized hole in your life.
Listen to ‘Lost Forever’ here.
In the last days of summer of 2007, behind the thick concrete walls of Berlin's techno mecca, Berghain, three young men from three different countries met by chance and had an idea. They wanted to make machine music with a human soul, to use guitars as synthesisers, and synthesisers as guitars, to prove their opinion that music that moves your feet can move your mind, and vice versa. The idea became I Heart Sharks. Nine years on, the three boys - Pierre Bee (vocals), Simon Wangemann (guitars), and Martin Wolf (drums) - are now four, the set now complete with bassist Craig Miller. Two Englishmen, a New Yorker and a German. I Heart Sharks came from the bottom up, starting out playing in squats and club staircases, playing houseparties instead of a DJ, watching the venues grow around them from miniscule to massive, supporting Friendly Fires and Kraftklub along the way. From Berlin to Melt, Dockville to Southside, Europavox to Eurosonic, they’ve played every conceivable festival in Germany, and many outside of it.
In 2011 I Heart Sharks released their debut album, ‘Summer', a collection of nostalgic songs sonically summarising the years on tour. The album was financed by fans who contributed to the project by purchasing memorabilia and memories ranging from lyric sheets to tickets to secret gigs. Their second album came in 2014, released on Island Records with the help of Hurts-producer Joseph Cross. 2016 is a return to the roots - back to indie label AdP Records and the DIY approach - a breath of fresh air, out of the studio and into the practice room. The “Hey Kid” EP in January and a sold-out tour in Spring, and now on November 11th, their third full LP “Hideaway”. The self-produced album is a sun-drenched, synth-soaked collection of guitar tracks - somewhere between surf-pop and gritty electronica, between California and Berlin, between nostalgia and daydreams.