"Heavy Seas of Love" | ||||
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Single by Damon Albarn featuring Brian Eno and The Leytonstone City Mission Choir |
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from the album Everyday Robots | ||||
Released | 27 April 2014 | |||
Format | Digital download | |||
Recorded | 2013 Studio 13 (West London) |
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Genre | Indie pop | |||
Length | 3:44 | |||
Label | Parlophone, Warner Bros., XL | |||
Songwriter(s) | Damon Albarn, Brian Eno | |||
Producer(s) | Damon Albarn, Brian Eno, Richard Russell | |||
Damon Albarn singles chronology | ||||
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Brian Eno singles chronology | ||||
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The Leytonstone City Mission Choir singles chronology | ||||
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Everyday Robots track listing | ||||
12 tracks
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"Heavy Seas of Love" is the fifth single by Damon Albarn, from his solo debut album, Everyday Robots. It was released as a single in digital formats on 27 April 2014, via Warner Bros. Records in the US. The song features Brian Eno and The Leytonstone City Mission Choir.
On 18 January 2014, the Warner Music Store was updated to include Damon Albarn's new album and its name was revealed – Everyday Robots, which is also the name of the first single. The deluxe edition of the album will come packaged with a DVD of Albarn performing a few album tracks live at Fox Studios in Los Angeles, California. The DVD was filmed on 3 December 2013. On the next day, the album's information was removed from the website, which made many believe it was not supposed to have leaked so soon. Albarn himself said in his official Facebook page that this record is his most soul-searching and autobiographical yet, explores nature versus technology and features guests Brian Eno and Natasha Khan, also known as Bat for Lashes.
Speaking of Brian Eno, who appears on the album and has also been involved in Albarn's Africa Express project, Albarn said: "He's a neighbor: I used to go to a health club that he goes to as well, but he always did much more interesting things than I did. I'd be on a mind-numbing running machine, and he took water aerobics classes. He was very Eno about it."
On 24 March 2014, Albarn released the song in its full studio format without the audio watermark on the track, and released the single art cover as well. The cover art is of the Palacio Salvo in Plaza Independencia in Uruguay
Albarn gave an interview with Danielle Perry on XFM and he said that Eno was invited to come along and listen to the album and Albarn asked him if he would sing on a track for the record, as Albarn was a huge fan of Eno's earlier music and had wanted a collaboration with Eno for a very long time.