Jehnny Beth has released her debut solo album To Love Is To Live – have a listen on New Music Friday.
Today’s release date was confirmed back in May with the Heroine single; “When I think of this song, I think of Romy from The xx strangling my neck with her hands in the studio,” Beth said of it. “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’.”