PETE FIJ
& TERRY BICKERS
BROKEN HEART
SURGERY
NEW SINGLE 'BETTY
FORD' OUT 23rd APRIL
Like
Groundhogs predicting an extended winter, former Creation Records label mates
Pete Fij (Adorable / Polak) & Terry Bickers (House of Love / Levitation)
have crawled out of musical hibernation to come together to declare that ‘quiet
is the new loud’ and ‘down is the new up’.
Conjuring
levels of intensity to match their more electrified combined musical pasts, their
predominantly acoustic new album, Broken Heart Surgery, celebrates
the downbeat and melancholic with a wry humour and lyrical wit. Think acoustic
Velvet Underground, after-hours Richard Hawley or Simon & Garfunkel on a
downer. But the forecast isn’t all grim, there are signs of spring in Pete
Fij’s glorious vocal melodies, and Terry Bickers’ guitar here vindicates hisNME-imposed
tag of ‘Guitar God’.
The
Pete Fij-directed video for the first single from the album, Betty
Ford, sees Messrs Fij and Bickers wading into the sea, clad in funereal black,
on a freezing winter’s day. Betty
Ford is about ‘a man brought down by his addiction to heartbreak’ says
Pete Fij.
Betty Ford will
be released on 23rd April and to celebrate its release Fij &
Bickers will perform a suitably laid back one-off Sunday service show at The
Albert in Brighton on Sunday 28th April.
The album is
scheduled for release in late August with more live dates planned for the
summer.
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