Features Exclusive: Listen: Track By Track: Stand Up Against Heart Crime - Stand Up Against Heart Crime

With their self titled debut ready for release on the 10th December, who better to talk us through their new record than the Barcelona boys themselves? And once you’ve whetted your appetite, you can stream the whole album exclusively below.

Birth
This was written pre-gig at Barcelona’s Razzmatazz Club, we had previously seen Factory Floor and were checking out loads of Zombie Zombie, and were feeling their tempo…. this seemed to us like a good way to start a gig, rather than breaking in with a sad pop song. And the rest followed. It’s a good progressive opener than brings the audience in.

I Need No Sun
This is a song about our human attraction to vices, with the sun being a metaphor for drugs, England conjures up this feeling in me, long nights smoking spliffs when I lived in the city; was like this for me, it’s a simple song. I like lyrics being simple. I’m not English and I like things to be un-obvious.

Am I Safe
This is the story about a man who became blind after walking into a tree. He was my mother’s boss, I have known him for ages, I found the whole story very sad and this is my song about it. Arnau, (our drummer), loves this tune. A song about an accident, with a repetition of a succession of notes, looped.

Mental
This is about a man I knew, who I met in London, he was my neighbour, we were no 42 he was no 52. He was part of the small Spanish community who lived on our estate. He came from Pinto, Latin for Puntum (the dot); in the centre of the peninsula Iberica (a comment he made often). He claimed he was a gypsy vampire, hugely camp. An amazing character, very talented. He even claimed he was growing wings. Sadly, he ended up in the mental institution in Whitechapel, we had to pick him up. He was upset that his floor was dirty, and that he was going to call his mother, the Queen, to complain.

Standing Outside
I wrote this in the studio, I needed time for this on my own. It’s about everything I don’t want to be, but what I believe I am, or, what I want anyone to be, but what they are not. Complicated.

Children
This is about my father not being there, me not being good enough to make it, and that’s it really; a personal journey.

Young
This is about the fact that we are growing, the word jump can be taken as suicide, but also as jump / enjoy. I am still not sure. The loss of rationality, when something in our lives changes irrevocably.

Joy
This is a song about partying every day, but feeling shit anyway. Primavera two years ago, having hard times with my then girlfriend, who left me. We saw Pulp together, an amazing experience, an amazing night, followed by a huge downer. The song is about going out night after night after night… then facing up to the realities, the experience left me broken and I wrote this track.

Welcome Party Sharks
This is a fake story, someone told me they were watching a series on TV in the UK and the guy goes to a mirror with a comb in hand, looks at himself, pulls back, saying ‘it’s okay….’, pleased, bright and confident, but essentially fake. I wanted to be positive, and be proud about it. In retrospect, I don’t think this tune fits in. Something Ronny Joyce used to say, jumping the queue, the blaggers to the party.

Pulsar
This is a complete studio song. The whole band took part in it, the whole mix included everyone, we wanted a different angle, we wanted something housey with a straight up party vide. It’s a great bookend for Births instrumental opener.



Stand Up Against Heart Crime will release their debut record on the 10th December, via Tape / Disco Caiman.