Pale Blue Eyes swap Devon’s ocean breeze for Sheffield’s steel pulse on New Place, their third album, which was born from movement, tour vans, and tectonic life shifts.
After tracing a 12,000-kilometre joyride across Europe with Slowdive (snow in Norway, scorched plains in Spain), tragedy nudged Matt and Lucy Board northward, chasing synths and solace.
“Change” is the album’s magnetic core. Lucy calls it a celebration of survival and restart. You can hear it in “How Long Is Now,” a carousel of radiant synths named after a Berlin mural.
Or in “Pieces of You,” where Matt’s voice drifts like mist over liquid guitar. “Be There,” featuring Cloth’s Rachael Swinton, slows things down to a candlelit pace. And on “Seven Years,” the bass buzzes with homemade soul.
W.H. Lung’s Tom Sharkett and Lewis Johnson-Kellett lend textures, layering the sound into something more city-born, less pastoral dream-pop and more forward-marching motorik shimmer. It’s still Pale Blue Eyes but refracted through concrete and neon.
New Place is equal parts elegy and invincibility, with krautrock ghosts dancing with synthpop hope. It’s a fresh start, but the map is still wrinkled from the journey.
Check out New Place by Pale Blue Eyes on Bandcamp here.
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