RELEASE DATES
Friday 30th January
Requiems
Friday 20th March
So Easy It's Wrong
Friday 24th April
Simple Life
Friday 5th June
Just Keep Spinning
Joe Hearty is a composer, arranger, and producer from the north-east of Scotland, now living and working between London and Athens.
He spent much of the 2000s touring and releasing records on labels like Too Pure, Big Scary Monsters, and Slow Learner, hitting pause on band life to escape a somewhat regressive environment and to explore queer life outside of music.
After a decade of heartbreak, love, and loss, Joe returned to songwriting and record-making in 2023 with a renewed sense of purpose: to create the unashamedly queer music that he couldn’t years before. Music that embraces ambiguity, defies boundaries, and celebrates the human experience in all its twisted beauty.
Joe Hearty is a composer, arranger, and producer from the north-east of Scotland, now living and working between London and Athens.
He spent much of the 2000s touring and releasing records on labels like Too Pure, Big Scary Monsters, and Slow Learner, hitting pause on band life to escape a somewhat regressive environment and to explore queer life outside of music.
After a decade of heartbreak, love, and loss, Joe returned to songwriting and record-making in 2023 with a renewed sense of purpose: to create the unashamedly queer music that he couldn’t years before. Music that embraces ambiguity, defies boundaries, and celebrates the human experience in all its twisted beauty.
In his latest collection of songs, the debut Album ‘Down’, Joe writes with clarity and heart, exploring his journey into queer adulthood, the death of his father and learning to find joy again. Playful, melody-laden arrangements butt up against more sparsely decorated stories of loss and longing, with Joe’s warm baritone skipping from a whisper to a bellow.
The album’s first single ‘Requiems’, due January 30th, is a romping cacophony of strings, piano and sing-along refrains reminiscent of Sergeant Pepper-era Beatles, or Rufus Wainwright, that traverses the hardships of grief and loss with a wry smile.
The singles ‘So Easy It’s Wrong’, ‘Simple Life’ and ‘Just Keep Spinning’ will follow between March and June. The full album release date is TBC.
In his latest collection of songs, the debut Album ‘Down’, Joe writes with clarity and heart, exploring his journey into queer adulthood, the death of his father and learning to find joy again.
Playful, melody-laden arrangements butt up against more sparsely decorated stories of loss and longing, with Joe’s warm baritone skipping from a whisper to a bellow.
The album’s first single ‘Requiems’, due January 30th, is a romping cacophony of strings, piano and sing-along refrains reminiscent of Sergeant Pepper-era Beatles, or Rufus Wainwright, that traverses the hardships of grief and loss with a wry smile.
The singles ‘So Easy It’s Wrong’, ‘Simple Life’ and ‘Just Keep Spinning’ will follow between March and June. The full album release date is TBC.
CREDITS
Written, performed and produced by Joe Hearty
Engineered by Paul Rafferty (Permanent Collection, Liverpool), Teemu Takatalo (Mutual Sound Studios, Athens) and Vasilis Korres (Old Carpet Factory, Hydra)
Mixing and Production support by Paul Rafferty
Mastering by Stephen Kerrison
Additional performances by:
Lucy Mercer - Drums
Paul Rafferty - Electric Guitar, Keyboards
Michael Jones - Violin
George Hoult - Cello
Hannah Lawrence - Saxophone, Clarinet, Flute
Nondas Coutsicos - Photography
Chrysanthos Christodoulou - Concept development & visual art
CONTACT
joeheartymusic@gmail.com
+447952874766
Instagram @joe_hearty
