The Head Hurts But The Heart Knows The Truth vinyl

As part of Vegyn's more recent movements away from abstract, snappy electronica and into more dream pop and indie-intoned directions, the producer personally known as Joe Thornalley now debuts a new project, Headache, in collaboration with an elusive collaborator, Francis Hornsby Clark. Like the indeterminacy of the Double Virgo release also put out on PLZ last year, The Head Hurts but the Heart Knows the Truth is stylistically myriad. A surreal project, it arrests the subconscious with neurotic monologues from an unnamed AI narrator - a true sense of alienation seeming to waft from their lonesome, but characteristically British-accented dialogue - all of which are laid to indie-electronic beats in the reminiscent style of Saint Etienne or Boards Of Canada. An ultimately sad and limit-experiential album, which seems to constantly scream at the listener, "wake up!"