Desire - Tears From Heaven (Italians Do It Better)

Desire make their long-awaited return on Italians Do It Better with a single shot of icy and epic synth pop

“Tears From Heaven” exists within that same nexus between fueled endings and melancholic beginnings as “Shadow” by Chromatics, who Desire share members with. It’s staying up all night to watch the return of Twin Peaks. At the same time it’s inhabiting sequences from your past; unwilling to go home after the club, looking out over the city with friends and collaborators. In both cases the night must stretch on beyond the need to sleep, keep its spell going.

Megan Louise, Johnny Jewel and Nat Walker haven’t waited twenty five years to bring back their Desire project, but it has taken them just shy of a decade. As a taster for their new album (expected next year), “Tears From Heaven” is a tantalising shot of icy and epic synth pop.

Megan Louise’s words offer light almost peeking out of the cover of darkness:

“I stared at stained glass windows / I didn’t see anything / I live just by the shadow / I didn’t feel anything”

She’s considering paths not taken, contemplating those that were. Colours are overcome. The music perpetually promises euphoria and is all the better for holding back from delivering it. Instead, we’re helplessly trapped in amber of a colder hue, “dancing in the dark” of Desire’s making.