Pale Waves' much anticipated debut album
'My Mind Makes Noises' is finally out. We've already taken you in depth on the story behind it in our August 2018 cover feature, which you can now read in full, online - but the story doesn't stop there. We grabbed ten minutes with
Heather Baron-Gracie for a quick catch-up on what's happened since, the stories behind some of the songs on the record, and what they're planning on doing next.
Oh, and if you don't want us to find your teenage pop punk past, 'the bands', either don't tell us one exists, or take it down from Soundcloud sharpish. We're internet detectives, with self-made certificates and everything.
Hello Heather. How are you feeling?
Oh god, it’s a bit mental really. The album’s out so soon. It feels like it’s come around just so fast. It feels like I was waiting forever for it to come out and now it’s around the corner.
Any nerves, fears or waking up in the middle of the night thinking ‘oh God, we should have done this and not that’?
To be honest, I’ve not had those thoughts at all. I just want to get it out to the world. I’m so excited. I feel like we made the right record for us.
How much writing did you do this summer?
We did a lot. Half the album was written in the studio, half over the years since we started Pale Waves. It was all over the place.
Tell us about ‘Eighteen’.
‘Eighteen’ is about when I met someone when I was eighteen and fell in love with them. I had an amazing time, they were a wicked person, and then it came to an end, but it was ready to end.
