The Bangles will release the guitar-driven Sweetheart of the Sun, their first new album in eight years, on September 13.
The album aims to celebrate the love of rock’s golden age that originally drew the band members together, balanced with their trademark vocal harmonies.В
Guitarist/vocalist Vicki Peterson says the album is inspired by California. “As we were finishing the record, we started to realize there was a unifying theme – paradise lost in Southern California, the perception juxtaposed with the reality of it,” Peterson said in a press statement.
Guitarist/vocalist Susanna Hoffs elaborates: “L.A. is like paradise – the sun shines 360 days a year, the flowers are always in bloom – but meanwhile, so many people are walking around alienated, depressed and anxious.”
The album was recorded by Matthew Sweet, who has recorded and toured with Hoffs, and worked with her in Austin Powers’ band Ming Tea. It was mixed by Jim Scott (Tom Petty, Wilco).
The complete track list for Sweetheart Of The Sun is as follows:
01. Annalee (Sweetheart Of The Sun)
02. Lay Yourself Down
03. Under A Cloud
04. I Will Never Be Through With You
05. Through Your Eyes
06. Ball & Chain
07. One Of Two
08. What A Life
09. Mesmerized
10. Circles In The Sky
11. Sweet And Tender Romance
12. Open My Eyes
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