For all-girl band Acid Wave, new album heart2heart, set for release on May 5, 2023, centers around the joy that bursts through when we find our home in others, be it romantic or platonic. The Texas-based five-piece describe themselves as “besties,” and are constantly inspired by each other, and it’s on heart2heart that Acid Wave shows us what can happen when you surround yourself with those you really trust.

Drummer/vocalist and songwriter Audrey Villalobos began writing what would become heart2heart after she moved to Oklahoma due to her time in the Air Force. Keyboardist/vocalist Jet Gil-Robert, guitarist/vocalist Eva Vasquez, bassist/vocalist Isanette Olivarez, and drummer/vocalist Mary Moreck stayed in El Paso, Texas and the band worked remotely for several years to bring together the collection of songs.

“I just felt so much love and I wanted to put that into songs for my partner,” Villalobos says. But heart2heart isn’t just a love story; instead, it interweaves all the growing pains of learning to love yourself too.

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Everything and Nothing

Beautiful Things I've Set On Fire

I Hope We Can Still Be Friends

Sad Sulek

cover from like 2 years ago recovered from my hard drive!

trees among shrubs

Magnum Opus

Sunday

Playground (Falling Trees Mix)

lover's grip

One of my 1970s songs with echoes of Laurel Canyon. The production and arrangement is my take on the sound of Jimmy Webb writing for Glen Campbell, David Gates or Bacharach and David covered by The Carpenters, that sweeping American orchestral sound, with the big vibe Gretsch. Most of it was written in '78-'79. I added the middle eight recently, when I realised that it had stuck around in my head, unbidden and unnurtured for over forty years. The song itself is probably influenced most by Donny Osmond, of whom I was a huge fan in the early '70s. To be specific, I think it's like something that could have been on his Alone Together or A Time for Us albums.

There's gonna be a sometime
When you're gonna need me
There's gonna be a sometime
When you want me there
There's gonna be a time sometime soon
When you need love to share
There's gonna be a sometime
When you care
Remember girl all of the times
I needed your loving
There never really seemed enough time
For us to find
I wonder what tomorrow brings
Now I won't look behind
Maybe tomorrow will be sometime
When you're mine
Why should yesterday hold so much sway
When tomorrow comes
Let's be the ones
Who don't delay
To find our way
There's gonna be a time
Sometime soon
When you need love to share
There's gonna be a sometime
When you care

There's Gonna Be a Sometime

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Devotion

Gila

Picture You Staring

Driverless Passenger

Shelly - Steeeam

Fish Shoots Man - a school/uni band from Cumbria’s Lake District that created an edgy, guitar-led soundscape in the mid 1980s recording again in the 2020s. The Cure, Prefab Sprout, Bauhaus, Cocteau Twins vibe is never far away!

Playground (Falling Trees Mix)

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