Videos

Allo Darlin' – My Heart Is A Drummer

1st Nov 2010

Hotfooting from a very succesful US tour and appearance at New York's CMJ Music Festival, Allo Darlin' are back in London in time for the release of their brand new single “My Heart Is A Drummer” out on Fortuna POP! on 15 November. Bursting with charm and indiepop loveliness, “My Heart Is A Drummer” is the perfect antitode to the encroaching winter. Now Allo Darlin' present their brand new video for the track directed by Joseph Brett and Simon Taffe.

Allo Darlin' are many things. They can turn a room in a famous punk venue into a joyous, jumping, sweaty, pop-mosh pit. Or bring a room of 500 to hushed silence with the few strums of a ukulele and a love song about cooking.

My Heart is a Drummer is the fourth single from Allo Darlin’s self-titled debut on Fortuna POP!, an album so chock-full of great tunes that it just keeps on giving. Brightening up the dull wintery days, “My Heart is a Drummer” calypsos and sashays, combining Elizabeth Morris’ signature ukulele with Bill Botting’s rumbling bass lines, Paul Rains’ rhythmic guitar and Mikey Collins’ swinging drum beat.

Allo Darlin’ are a breath of fresh air breezing through stale music everywhere. Elizabeth Morris’ thoughtful yet playful creations are achingly personal, incredibly poignant and familiar all at once. Incorporating tunes that you think you must have heard before, she twists them into something new and highly intoxicating. Bringing a certain Australian aesthetic from her native country, she translates effortlessly into the London scene, using ideas very much based on every day life and observations. “My Heart is A Drummer” is a statement of inner strength and defiance with lyrics somehow manages to include a chain-smoking asthma suffering boyfriend, that nervous in love feeling of twisting your fingers round the telephone cord and Paul Simon’s Graceland. Meanwhile the b-side, an acoustic version of their last single “If Loneliness Was Art”, tells of longing for someone who is seemingly out of reach.

Allo Darlin’s remarkable success began with their first single “Henry Rollins Don’t Dance” on the WeePOP! label which received play on Radio 1 and 6 Music and was hailed as “the best indiepop song for years” by The Guardian. Since being signed to indie label du jour Fortuna POP!, the band have been going from strength to strength with numerous live radio sessions for the likes of John Kennedy at XFM and Steve Lamacq and Lauren Laverne at BBC 6 Music and tons of critical acclaim.

After multiple shows at the prestigious SXSW in Austin in the spring and a Pitchfork 7.9 album review, Allo Darlin’ will be back on the US music conference circuit appearing in New York at CMJ in October before embarking on a full Stateside tour. Earlier in the year they also appeared at the New York Popfest which lead to a glowing review on the front page of the New York Times website. Back in the UK, they toured with The School in March and played various festivals including End of the Road and Indietracks. Keep an eye out for other forthcoming UK dates.