Amber Arcades, which is the moniker of Dutch musician Annelotte De Graaf, has offered up another sample from her upcoming second album “European Heartbreak” which is due out on the 28th September via Heavenly Records, with her new track “Alpine Town”
The track was came to fruition during a visit to Guillestre in the French Alps. Speaking of the track Amber Arcades explained: “I wrote this song exactly a year ago while on holiday in Guillestre, a small town in the French Alps. I was kind of in a sad place and my boyfriend had dragged me along to get away from all that, but I guess it doesn’t really work like that, ha. It just made me reflect on the sad part of the tourist condition as a metaphor for life, man.”
In a press release about the imminent album, she delves further into the core theme of the album when stating: “If it were called American Heartbreak, you wouldn’t bat an eye. Somehow calling it European Heartbreak feels far less comfortable, almost like a statement in itself. I’m Dutch, hence European. The focus of the record is Europe. As for Heartbreak, for me heartbreak symbolises any kind of falling apart of one of these concepts or stories we invent for ourselves, like romantic love, a sense of identity, nationality, an economic system. It’s kind of a universal thing in my mind.”
Amber Arcades heads out on tour to support the album and you can catch her at the following venues:
Friday 17th August – Green Man Festival, Crickhowell, UK
Friday 7th September – Festival No. 6, Minffordd, UK
Wednesday 3rd October – The Exchange, Bristol
Thursday 4th October – The Deaf Institute, Manchester
Friday 5th October – Mono, Glasgow
Saturday 6th October – Think Tank, Newcastle
Sunday 7th October – The Polar Bear, Hull
Tuesday 9th October – Belgrave Music Hall, Leeds
Wednesday 10th October – The Dome, London
Friday 12th October – The Haunt, Brighton
Thursday 25th October – Rotown, Rotterdam
Friday 26th October – Sugarfactory, Amsterdam
Saturday 27th October – Merelyn, Nijmegen
