Jehnny Beth releases Heroine with debut solo album To Love Is To Live scheduled for June


Savages' Jehnny Beth at Leeds Festival 2016 (Photo: Gary Mather for Live4ever)

Savages’ Jehnny Beth at Leeds Festival (Photo: Gary Mather for Live4ever)




Jehnny Beth has released Heroine with her debut solo album To Love Is To Live scheduled for June 12th.

“When I think of this song, I think of Romy from The xx strangling my neck with her hands in the studio,” she says. “She was trying to get me out of my shell lyrically, and there was so much resistance in me she lost her patience.”

“The song was originally called Heroism, but I wasn’t happy because it was too generic. Flood was the first one to suggest to say Heroine instead of Heroism. Then I remember Johnny Hostile late at night in my hotel room in London saying, ‘I don’t understand who you are singing about. Who is the Heroine? You ARE the Heroine’. The next morning, I arrived early in the studio and recorded my vocals adding ‘to be’ to the chorus line: ‘all I want is TO BE a heroine’.”

To Love Is To Live was recorded in Los Angeles, London and Paris, and features an array of collaborators including, as mentioned, The xx’s Romy Madley Croft, actor Cillian Murphy and Joe Talbot.


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