Helen Love Return With Northern Soul-Honouring New Single ‘Stay With Me’
Perennial Welsh cult-icons HELEN LOVE return today with new single ‘Stay With Me’, released 14th May 2024 via Alcopop! Records and available to stream on all good digital service providers.
‘Stay With Me’ serves as a taste of a larger body of material scheduled for later this year from the always prolific songwriter, with further details TBA over the coming months.
Commenting on the track, Love says: “I've always loved Northern Soul music, and I'm always buying compilation albums and finding great lost 45s that are just incredible. I think listening to so much of it recently has influenced the writing of this song, and although I could never be as good as those genius writers and singers, I am kinda satisfied that 'Stay With Me' has that vibe. Anyway, it's Spring, the flowers are growing, the cherry blossoms are out and it's the kind of song I'd like to hear popping out of the radio on a sunny May morning!”
The new single is the first new material since Love’s 2022’s critically-acclaimed 10th album This is My World, a reflective record that saw Helen taking stock, painting a nuanced and honest portrait of life growing up in Wales.
Crowned Louder Than War’s Album of The Week, and picking up further support from Classic Rock, Shindig! Magazine, legendary ‘70s New York music mag Trouser Press, and a host of spins from perennial fans at BBC 6music, This Is My World was heralded as their best album to date.
Rolling joyously into her third decade of making music, front-woman Helen Love is undoubtedly now a national punk institution. First releasing records back in 1992, through a career that has undulated from "Love and Glitter" to "Hot Days and Musik", she has persevered, thrived, and reached new generations of fans with each new offering.
Writing an increasingly rich and deep catalogue of bubblegum disco DIY club anthems for the best part of 30 years with no signs of slowing down, she’s now sharing the limelight with her daughter aka Femmebug, born during the course of Love’s own songwriting career.
The Love dynasty endures.
New single ‘Stay With Me’ released 14th May 2022 via Alcopop! Records
