Watch: The Pastels Release Video For ‘Check My Heart’

The Pastels are getting ready to release a brand new album at the end of next month, and in the meantime, they’ve unveiled a new video.

Filmed on 16mm film, the clip for ‘Check My Heart’ is a rich depiction of life on a Glaswegian Saturday morning, as directed by Blair Young.

Have a watch of the clip for their first single below.



The band’s new album, ‘Slow Summits’, will follow up their last studio album proper, 1997’s ‘Illumination’ on 27th May.

The nine-track album, recorded in Glasgow by John McEntire and Bal Cooke, and mixed in Chicago by McEntire, features a series of guest appearances. In addition to the ‘core’ line-up of Stephen McRobbie, Katrina Mitchell, Tom Crossley, Gerard Love, Alison Mitchell and John Hogarty, it also boasts sounds from original Pastel Annabel Wright (Aggy) and Teenage Fanclub’s Norman Blake.

The tracklisting is:

1. Secret Music
2. Night Time Made Us
3. Check My Heart
4. Summer Rain
5. After Image
6. Kicking Leaves
7. Wrong Light
8. Slow Summits
9. Come To The Dance

The band also have some shows scheduled, as follows.

JUNE
01 Glasgow, CCA

JULY
27 Indietracks Festival, Derbyshire

AUGUST
16 Green Man Festival, Black Mountains, Wales
24 Doune the Rabbit Hole, Doune, Scotland