The WAEVE announce new EP with anti-Valentine’s single ‘Love Is All Pain’

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The WAEVE have announced their latest EP ‘Eternal’ and have shared its lead anti-Valentine’s single ‘Love Is All Pain’.Produced by James Ford (Arctic Monkeys, Blur), the three-track EP is set for release on March 14 via Transgressive and can be pre-ordered / pre-saved here.

The first taster of the project comes in the form of ‘Love Is All Pain’.“Oh! Love is all pain / Thought I’d escaped it / But I need it again / It’s hard, it’s hard / It’s harder than hell,” sing the duo – comprised of Blur guitarist Graham Coxon and The Pipettes member Rose Elinor Dougall – in the chours, describing the reaitlies of Love over throbbing electro synths.Directed by Simon Leeder, the song’s accompanying music video was shot entirely on black & white 8mm film in a nod to the post-punk synth-era aesthetic of the late 1980s.

It captures The WAEVE on location around Southmere Lake at Thamesmead, South East London’s iconic Brutalist estate.‘Eternal’ serves as a follow up to The WAEVE’s past two albums, 2023’s self-titled and 2024’s ‘City Lights’.The WAEVE’s ‘Eternal’ EP tracklist is: 1. ‘Love Is All Pain’2. ‘It’s The Hope That Kills You’3. ‘Eternal’Previously speaking to NME about their family life and “the horrors of the world” shaped their LP ‘City Lights’, Dougall said: “It’s still a miracle that this project and this life that we share has happened at all – because it was all triggered by this one tiny show that we decided to do [in 2004 at Islington’s the Buffalo Bar].

Had either of us decided not to do it, then none of this would have existed.“Sometimes, the fragility of how things come into being can be a bit frightening.