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Brudenell Presents
Jadu Heart
Wednesday 4th June 2025
Wednesday 4th June 2025
Brudenell Social Club
7:30pm
Age Restriction: 14+ (Under 18s to be accompanied by an adult)
Age Restriction: 14+ (Under 18s to be accompanied by an adult)
For nearly a decade, Jadu Heart have toiled in the liminal, endlessly explorable space between pop and the underground, following every whim wherever it took them – from sinewy electronic funk on 2016’s Wanderflower to lithe jazz and ambient electronic music on 2019’s Melt Away to blissful post-shoegaze on 2020’s Hyper Romance. With 2023’s anxious wall of sound Derealised, Diva Jeffrey and Alex Headford finally felt like they had broken through to a new plane. They went on tour in America and came home buzzing. Then, they broke up. But the band stayed together.
Post Heaven, the London duo’s resplendent, wounded fourth album, finds Jeffrey and Headford in the aftermath of that seismic personal and professional event, sifting through the remnants of their relationship and putting them back together. A shimmering odyssey of warped electronic folk, fragmented rock and warm dance music, Post Heaven finds Jeffrey and Headford memorialising their relationship with clarity and empathy, creating a memoir in duet form along the way. Even if the pair are no longer together as a couple, they have never been stronger as a band.
“Working on music after the breakup was nice in a way, because it kept us tethered together,” recalls Headford. The pair wrote the bulk of the songs on the album in the space of a month, and “the best ones ended up being the ones that were about the breakup,” he says.“Before we’d even started, I was like, ‘I don’t want to write one more love song’, but as we chipped away at the album, it was like, that one’s a love song, that one’s a love song… Even though they’re about the breakup – which they’re gonna be, you know.”
Jeffrey says that working together in the studio “was kind of the only bit of normality. Everything else changed, and then when we were in the studio, it was like nothing had happened. Everything was fine again, and then we’d leave, we’d be like, ‘Fuck.’” There were times when she and Headford would both burst into tears in the studio; sometimes the experience was cathartic, and a lot of the time, it was rough. The pair had lived totally interlinked since they were 18, weathering mental health issues and drug problems and making music together all the while. In the end, breaking up before working on Post Heaven led to what they say was their most functional working relationship to date. “It became a lot easier to get the work done and collaborate,” says Headford. “It kind of felt like a new band.”
You can hear that refreshed quality throughout Post Heaven, which can be hushed and gentle at one moment, overwhelmingly big at the next; although Jadu Heart have always mixed genres, they describe this album as “post-music”– all their histories and influences from music and beyond, braided into something coherent but strange. “AUX”, an early highlight, finds Headford singing softly over a boom-bap beat and heartfelt acoustic guitar, resulting in a song that crashes and recedes like waves hitting the shore. “You’re Dead” finds links between post-rock and IDM, its stuttering beat giving way to an almighty, terrifying climax. These songs capture the idea that it’s possible to feel every emotion at one time, without one cancelling the others out; it’s music straight from the heart, made with freedom and care.
It’s also unconventional, perhaps because, as Jeffery says, “We’ve both lived quite a psychedelic life – the world has always felt very separated and weird to us.” You can hear that uniqueness of experience on the track Post Romance, a lush, string-drenched song that speaks to Headford’s initial desire to make a folk record, instead of the fantastical chimera they ended up with. You can definitely hear it on the album’s breathtaking dream-pop finale, “SOS”, a waltz written in a way that only Jadu Heart could – off-kilter, heartfelt and full of life. “The goal of the music has always been to tap into the emotion,” says Headford. Adds Jeffrey: “We’re very sensitive, earnest people. In the music industry, that’s difficult, because a lot of people play a character. We couldn’t do that if we tried – we just wear our hearts on our sleeves.”
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