Taylor OhrynAugust 15, 2025Autoheart, Heartlands, New Album, Denial, O/R Records, Jody Gadsden, Barney JC, Simon Neilson, Danton Supple, indie pop, queer music, live instrumentation, The Orpheum Tampa FL, The Abbey Orlando FL, The Loft at Center Stage Atlanta GA, Canal Club Richmond VA, Union Stage Washington DC, World Café Live Philadelphia PA, Brooklyn Bowl Brooklyn NY, The Royale Boston MA, Theatre Fairmount Montreal QC, Annabel’s Music Hall Toronto ON, Grewal Hall Lansing MI, The Roxy Cleveland OH, Mr. Smalls Theatre Pittsburgh PA, Exit/In Nashville TN, Old Rock House St. Louis MO, Concord Music Hall Chicago IL, Fine Line Music Café Minneapolis MN, Rebellion Manchester UK, Oslo Hackney London UK, Dingwalls London UK, The Echo Lounge & Music Hall Dallas TX, Antone’s Austin TX, Bad Astronaut Houston TX, Tannahill’s Tavern & Music Hall Ft. Worth TX, recordBar Kansas City MO, Slowdown Omaha NE, The Summit Music Hall Denver CO, Soundwell Salt Lake City UT, Shrine Ballroom Boise ID, Dickens Calgary AB, Starlite Ballroom Edmonton AB, The Pearl Vancouver BC, Neptune Theater Seattle WA, Hawthorne Theatre Portland OR, Ceremony Oakland CA, Ventura Music Hall Ventura CA, House of Blues San Diego CA, The Observatory Santa Ana CA, Nile Theater Phoenix AZComment

Autoheart 'Heartlands' Their Most Infectious & Defiant Album To Date

AUTOHEART RELEASE FOURTH FULL-LENGTH ALBUM

HEARTLANDS TODAY VIA O/R RECORDS

36-DATE NORTH AMERICAN TOUR KICKS OFF SEPTEMBER 5

STREAM HEARTLANDS VIA SPOTIFY | APPLE MUSIC

New York, NY (August 15, 2025) - Today, London indie-pop trio Autoheart return with their most infectious and defiant album to date, Heartlands, via their own O/R Records. With it they shared a video for the record’s latest single “Denial.” Autoheart - Jody Gadsden (vocals), Barney JC (guitars/bass) and Simon Neilson (piano/keys) will head out on a massive 36-date North American tour in two legs, the first kicking off September 5 in Tampa [all dates below].

Watch + share the “Denial” video via YouTube.

Heartlands is a journey into the world Autoheart has quietly built with their listeners – a sprawling, defiant, often dreamlike place imagined not just by the band, but by the community that grew around them.

It wasn’t meant to be a comeback album – but it does feel like a homecoming. A return to the band’s roots in live instrumentation: pianos, guitars, drums, and layered, choral vocals. A record you can play loud and take straight to the stage. Written partly on the road during their 2024 Love Me Love Me Love Me tour – their first live shows in over a decade – Heartlands was shaped by the energy of those nights and the rediscovery of what Autoheart had perhaps forgotten: this is what they were meant to do.

The band began writing the record in transit – hotel rooms, soundchecks, long drives across unfamiliar landscapes. Then, almost as soon as the tour ended, they stepped into The Pool in south London – a cavernous, character-rich studio where artists like Florence + the Machine, Depeche Mode and LCD Soundsystem have previously recorded. The rest was completed at Urchin Studios, where they made much of 2021’s Hellbent. Self-produced and mixed by longtime collaborator Danton Supple (X&Y, Punch), the album feels both urgent and expansive – a full-band sound soaked in atmosphere, with a clarity that lets every vocal crack, piano chord and guitar hum breathe.

It’s also, notably, their most collaborative work to date. With the exception of “Lost” – a deeply personal track penned by Gadsden – nearly every song on Heartlands was co-written and shaped by the trio as a unit. The difference is audible. These are songs built to be played live. Songs that stretch and unfold. Songs that know they’re being heard.

Lyrically, the album is a kind of reckoning – a series of letters to younger selves, reflections on the invisible weight of growing up queer, and messages of solidarity for anyone still carrying that weight. Autoheart never fit easily into a scene. Too pop for indie, too indie for pop. Too gay when it wasn’t cool to be, and not quite gay enough – or the right kind of gay – to be embraced by the queer music world when it finally arrived.

Their first manager told them to hide their sexuality. They didn’t. Their second manager never showed them their streaming stats – and for years they assumed no one was really listening.

But someone was. And slowly, those voices made themselves heard. Emails and DMs turned into fan art, tattoos, cosplay, a Discord server – a quiet chorus growing louder, one message at a time. A fandom began to form – self-named the Heartheads – and in them, Autoheart saw something familiar: outsiders, weirdos, romantics, people who didn’t fit the mould. Some of the band’s songs – especially “Stalker’s Tango” – began to quietly explode, finding new life across anime edits, queer fan pages, and video platforms they hadn’t even posted to themselves. Suddenly, the band realised: people weren’t just listening. They were listening hard.

And so, in return, Heartlands became a kind of offering. A thank you. A creative exchange between band and fanbase.

Tour Dates [purchase tickets here]:

09/05 – Tampa, FL @ The Orpheum
09/06 – Orlando, FL @ The Abbey
09/08 – Atlanta, GA @ The Loft at Center Stage
09/09 – Richmond, VA @ Canal Club
09/11 – Washington, DC @ Union Stage
09/12 – Philadelphia, PA @ World Café Live
09/13 – Brooklyn, NY @ Brooklyn Bowl
09/14 – Boston, MA @ The Royale
09/16 – Montreal, PQ @ Theatre Fairmount
09/17 – Toronto, ON @ Annabel’s Music Hall
09/19 – Lansing, MI @ Grewal Hall
09/20 – Cleveland, OH @ The Roxy
09/21 – Pittsburgh, PA @ Mr. Smalls Theatre
09/24 – Nashville, TN @ Exit/In
09/25 – St. Lous, MO @ Old Rock House
09/26 – Chicago, IL @ Concord Music Hall
09/27 – Minneapolis, MN @ Fine Line Music Café
10/10 – Manchester, UK @ Rebellion [sold out]
10/11 – London, UK @ Oslo Hackney [sold out]
10/12 – London, UK @ Dingwalls
10/30 – Dallas, TX @ The Echo Lounge & Music Hall
10/31 – Austin, TX @ Antone’s
11/01 – Houston, TX @ Bad Astronaut
11/02 – Ft. Worth, TX @ Tannahill’s Tavern & Music Hall
11/04 – Kansas City, MO @ recordBar
11/05 – Omaha, NE @ Slowdown
11/06 – Denver, CO @ The Summit Music Hall
11/07 – Salt Lake City, UT @ Soundwell
11/08 – Boise, ID @ Shrine Ballroom
11/10 – Calgary, AB @ Dickens
11/11 – Edmonton, AB @ Starlite Ballroom
11/13 – Vancouver, BC @ The Pearl
11/14 – Seattle, WA @ Neptune Theater
11/15 – Portland, OR @ Hawthorne Theatre
11/17 – Oakland, CA @ Ceremony
11/19 – Ventura, CA @ Ventura Music Hall
11/20 – San Diego, CA @ House of Blues
11/21 – Santa Ana, CA @ The Observatory
11/22 – Phoenix, AZ @ Nile Theater