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Single: Smaller Hearts Return with a Nihilistic Dance Party ‘Cloud Cover’

Smaller Hearts returns with “Cloud Cover,” their latest in beat-happy danceable tracks since their release of their self-titled debut album last year. With their new single husband and wife duo Kristina Parlee (The Maynards/The Reference Desk) and Ron Bates (Orange Glass/The Memories Attack) saunter through their lyrics with such determined ambiguity that, for better or worse (mostly better), it sounds as though they’re advocating for cheerful nihilism.  Continue reading Single: Smaller Hearts Return with a Nihilistic Dance Party ‘Cloud Cover’

New Music: Smaller Hearts Debut Self-Titled Album

Electronica husband-and-wife duo Smaller Hearts released their debut album of the same name last Friday. After Kristina Parlee and Ron Bates began the project with their “Summertime III” single, they’ve returned with a heavily experimental LP that, in a sentence, is best described as “pregnant synthwave.” Continue reading New Music: Smaller Hearts Debut Self-Titled Album

Music Video: Smaller Hearts Make Their Debut With ‘Summertime III’

Husband and wife team Kristina Parlee (The Maynards/The Reference Desk) and Ron Bates (Orange Glass/The Memories Attack) have recently reinvented themselves as synth-pop duo Smaller Hearts. Formerly Homo Duplex (also a synth pop duo) the two revised their sound to the point that something else had to change. You can get the first taste of it with the new single, “Summertime III”. Continue reading Music Video: Smaller Hearts Make Their Debut With ‘Summertime III’