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Helen Love Signs To Alcopop! Records For New Album

• 11th Dec 2015

Welsh indie bubblegum-punk pioneer Helen Love has announced she will release her long-awaited eighth studio album in April 2016 via Oxford, UK-based independent label Alcopop! Records.

However, before further details are revealed, she’s kicking off with a fantastic Christmas single ‘The Townhall Band’, which is being released in aid of the Trussell Trust, with every penny of download sales being used to empower local communities to end hunger and combat poverty. Recorded with her pals including the likes of Tim Wheeler (Ash), Ricardo Autobahn, Pete Green (The Sweet Nothings), Andrea Lewis (Darling Buds) and more, this quirky lo-fi Xmas track is sure to be a festive favourite.

Helen will be touring the UK with a full live band on a select run of dates still to be announced in support of the new album, with further details of special-format releases also to follow.

Commenting on the signing, Jack Clothier of Alcopop says: “I’ve been a MASSIVE fan of Helen Love ever since I heard the ‘Tommy Gun Clash’ cover on Steve Lamacq’s Bootleg Sessions Volume 2 back in 1999. My friend Dave sent me the ‘Does Your Heart Go Boom’ single and I was absolutely smitten. On the quest of becoming best pals with Helen and the gang I (genuinely) enrolled at Swansea University where they played exactly no hometown shows and I met them approximately never. Fast forward 10 years or so, and en route to the first HL show in London for many years, I bumped into Helen in a mid-priced chain pub and finally met the queen of the UK music scene. Now we’re working together on her new album, and to put it frankly – I couldn’t be happier about it. This is Helen Love on absolutely sparkling form… From Swansea Bay to the USA!”

‘The Townhall Band’ is out now via iTunes