As MY LIFE STORY gear-up for the release of their first album in five years, today (15 January) they are pleased to share its electrifying opening track: Running Out Of Heartbeats.
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Mixed by Ben Hillier, who has notably produced a number of Depeche Mode albums, this exhilarating, electronica-skewered anthem pulses and whirrs with a kindred mechanised groove and futuristic sheen.
Inspired by a quote from astronaut Neil Armstrong, new single Running Out Of Heartbeats finds chief songwriter Jake Shillingford in a philosophical mood and theorising on how love, life, and how we live it, could be playing with our human hearts and our overall longevity.
As Shillingford explains of the track:
“On returning from the moon and on his withdrawal from public life Neil Armstrong allegedly said: ‘I believe every human has a finite number of heartbeats. I don’t intend to waste any of mine’. Finite Heartbeat Theory suggests we get roughly 2.5 billion beats throughout our lives. I wanted to explore if we can put a value on each heartbeat. Do we lose more through the palpitations of love, or leading a dynamic life? Or are we wasting our heartbeats by taking the easy life?”
The band will perform at Vinyl Whistle in Leeds on February 11th.