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HEARTLESS BASTARDS

Album: ‘‘Arrow’’

UK Vinyl Release: October 7th - CD & Download available now (Partisan Records)

Lollapalooza + End of the Road Festival + UK Tour

Original Soundtrack recorded for ‘Winter In The Blood’ Film

Watch the video for PARTED WAYS from the current album ARROW,  HERE

You’ll forgive them the harsh moniker once you hear the remarkable powerhouse vocals of Heartless Bastard’s singer/guitarist/songwriter Erika Wennerstrom. Discovered and championed by fellow Ohio natives, The Black Keys, her unique voice is in turn primal and pleading, heartfelt and heroic.

Brimming with confidence and creativity, the new album Arrow sees HB’s pushing their distinctive blues-rock sound forward with their most eclectic, energetic collection thus far. Now based in Austin, Texas Arrow, their first release with Partisan Records is brimful of strength and spirit evident in songs like “Parted Ways” and the searing “Low Low Low”.

A formidable live band who spend most nights on the road, it took some downtime for Wennerstrom to turn her latest musical ideas into fully-fledged songs she embarked on the first of what would be several inspirational solo road trips. Wennerstrom visited friends and family in Ohio, hung out at All Tomorrow’s Parties in the Catskills, spent alone time in Arkansas, a lake cabin in the Allegheny Mountains and at a ranch in West Texas.

It wasn’t long before the HB’s hit the highway once more, taking the opportunity to road-test Wennerstrom’s new songs on a bare-bones “acoustic” tour as well on a series of dates supporting Drive-By Truckers. A revved-up, well-oiled rock ‘n’ roll machine the HB’s set to work on Arrow just two short days after their return to Austin spending the next month with producer Jim Eno at his Public Hi-Fi home studio. Eno – also the drummer in Spoon – guided the HB’s through the recording process, helping them to infuse their myriad influences and ambitions into the songs.

Kicking off with the widescreen vision of “Marathon,” the album is more wholly fleshed than anything in the HB’s prior oeuvre, while simultaneously securing the band in all their straight-on, unadorned majesty. It showcases the depth and breadth of the band’s indelible sound, with songs like “Got To Have Rock and Roll” and “Down In The Canyon” lighting upon spaghetti western film scores, Seventies soul, psychedelia, funk, blues, glam, and mudhole-stomping hard rock. Two years of nearly non-stop touring resulted in an astonishing musical telepathy within the band, with all four players intuitively able to craft Wennerstrom’s songs into maximum form.

Arrow is the glorious sound of a four-piece rock ‘n’ roll outfit in full flight.

Tracklisting: Marathon, Parted Ways, Got To Have Rock And Roll, Only For You, Simple Feeling, Skin and Bone, The ‘Arrow’ Killed The Beast, Late In The Night, Low Low Low, Down In The Canyon


Following two performances at Lollapalooza in Chicago, HB’s head to the UK in September 2013:

1st   End of the Road Festival – Woods stage

2nd  Bristol Thekla http://www.alt-tickets.co.uk/alttickets/home_heartless_bastards.html

3rd   LONDON The Garage   http://www.ticketweb.co.uk/event/57603?camefrom=CFC_UK_MAMA_GARAGE&brand=thegarage
10th  Brighton Green Door Store   http://zazamusic.co.uk/

12th  Glasgow ABC2  http://www.o2abcglasgow.co.uk/event/54146/heartless-bastards-tickets

13th  Manchester Ruby Lounge  www.ticketline.co.uk  / www.seetickets.com


14th   Norwich Arts Centre http://norwichartscentre.co.uk/events/heartless-bastards/


Heartless Bastards is: Erika Wennerstrom  (vocals + guitar) / Dave Colvin (drums) / Jesse Ebaugh (bass) / Mark Nathan (guitar).

www.theheartlessbastards.com

www.partisanrecords.com

www.winterinthebloodfilm.com  - all original score by Heartless Bastards with additional songs from Robert Plant amongst others