Circa Waves announce second instalment of Death & Love

Originally released in January 2025, Death & Love Pt.1 was Kieran Shuddall about starting from scratch after his brush with mortality, following receiving the news that the main artery in his heart was blocked. As such, one record wasn’t enough to house all that would come flooding from such a profound experience. “I’d written so much stuff after all the heart incident stuff – there was a release of creativity,” Shuddall admits. “There were more songs than I’d ever written before, in one furious writing period.”

After ‘part one’ tried to make sense of what he’d been through, “this album feels like the more optimistic part of the two records,” says Shuddall. “It almost feels like if the first record was before the operation and death and fear of dying, then one is coming through the other side. It’s about love, life, survival and euphoria”.

Death & Love Pt.1 and Death & Love Pt.2 were produced by Shuddall and recorded between a friend’s studio in Finsbury Park and RAK studios in London. The releases are set to follow like 2017’s, Different Creatures, 2019’s What’s It Like Over There?, 2020's Sad Happy and their latest, Never Going Under, which was in 2023.

Tracklist:

1. Lost In The Fire
2. Stick Around
3. Cherry Bomb
4. Ten Outta Ten
5. Love Me For The Weekend
6. Sunbeams
7. Old Balloons
8. Sweet Simple Thing
9. Wave Goodbye