That’s why on the first album I would use dolls or silhouettes because I hadn’t found someone I’d felt comfortable enough to be on camera and act intimately with.” “I didn’t ever want to be in a video with another person or actress because you can’t fake chemistry. ‘Change’ debuted on the Annie Mac show as the Hottest Single In The World the euphoric ‘Easy’ mixes goth-rock with poppy lyrics on love while the ‘She’s My Religion’ music video sees Heather and her girlfriend Kelsi racing like Bonnie and Clyde through the English countryside. The three singles released so far have already had great success for the Manchester-bred band, formed of lead-singer Heather, drummer Ciara Doran, guitarist Hugo Silvani and bassist Charlie Wood. “I hit 25 and I had that kind of realisation like, oh shit, I need to get my act together” It’s a tender, optimistic record, packed full of nineties nostalgia and progressive lyrics on queerness, with Heather asserting that “sexuality isn’t a choice” in feel-good banger ‘Tomorrow’, a track that could easily pass as the theme tune to any retro sitcom. “I do feel like I’m missing a lot of the elements of a normal album campaign and it’s just unfortunate that it has landed in the middle of a pandemic but, you know, there are bigger things going on right now – people are dying.”ĭespite ongoing restrictions and the world’s impending doom, Who Am I? is a breath of fresh air, telling not necessarily of a pre-pandemic world, but of the hope and determination we deserve in the new one. “We can’t go out and engage with fans in person”, Heather lamented. Who Am I? may be living up to the difficult second album reputation – at the beginning of last year, several of the band’s members were involved in a major, but luckily non-fatal, crash in Berlin a few weeks later, all of their recording was put on hold as the world shutdown due to the coronavirus pandemic. She’d spent Christmas with her parents back home in Preston – “I didn’t want to come back down to London – the cases are so bad”, Heather told me. She chats to me over Zoom, only a radiator visible from her London home.

“If I had carried on, I would have had three albums”, Heather Baron-Gracie says of writing her upcoming record Who Am I? for her band Pale Waves.

Fall from Love by Heather London