limited indies only blue marble lp while pale waves’ first three albums focused on the band’s immediate present, 'smitten' is a lot more preoccupied with past lives – some more recent than others.written two years after 'unwanted', and after the tour that followed, heather found herself in a headspace where she could finally breathe, and reflect, like peeling through the pages of a long-forgotten teenage diary and being surprised by what she found. “i found myself writing about not just a certain time period, but my whole life, from years ago,” she says. “when i fall in love, i fall deep, and it’s interesting to me that you can feel so fascinated and smitten with someone and then they can become a total stranger. so i feel like smitten really summarised perfectly what i felt for others at a certain point.”
limited indies only blue marble lp while pale waves’ first three albums focused on the band’s immediate present, 'smitten' is a lot more preoccupied with past lives – some more recent than others.written two years after 'unwanted', and after the tour that followed, heather found herself in a headspace where she could finally breathe, and reflect, like peeling through the pages of a long-forgotten teenage diary and being surprised by what she found. “i found myself writing about not just a certain time period, but my whole life, from years ago,” she says. “when i fall in love, i fall deep, and it’s interesting to me that you can feel so fascinated and smitten with someone and then they can become a total stranger. so i feel like smitten really summarised perfectly what i felt for others at a certain point.”
limited indies only blue marble lp while pale waves’ first three albums focused on the band’s immediate present, 'smitten' is a lot more preoccupied with past lives – some more recent than others.written two years after 'unwanted', and after the tour that followed, heather found herself in a headspace where she could finally breathe, and reflect, like peeling through the pages of a long-forgotten teenage diary and being surprised by what she found. “i found myself writing about not just a certain time period, but my whole life, from years ago,” she says. “when i fall in love, i fall deep, and it’s interesting to me that you can feel so fascinated and smitten with someone and then they can become a total stranger. so i feel like smitten really summarised perfectly what i felt for others at a certain point.”
