Duke Keats – Heavy Heartbreak

The last time we heard Coventry performer Duke Keats was on last year’s sprawling jazz-funk live recorded odyssey, ‘Dirty Glamour’. His latest single ‘Heavy Heartbreak’ is a large-scale departure from 2023’s EP, finding the artist distilling his many varied and wide-ranging influences into an astonishingly ace dreamy radio-made bop.

An upbeat summery synth and bass powered alt-pop tune spliced with words that look back misty eyed and fondly on an innocent former love, alluding to the ample pain that comes from reminiscing, Keats has penned a Passion Pit style spiky but sugary sprightly treat of a song. As buoyant as it is theatrical.

‘Heavy Heartbreak’ is the first track we’re getting to hear from Duke Keats’ forthcoming ‘BORNSTAR’ EP. Word on the grapevine/Keats’ instagram account is that the next track is imminent. For now though, you can hear ‘Heavy Heartbreak’ on all the usual streaming platforms and we’ve put the official music video for you to view down below: