Alex Clare, who sold of 5 million copies of his hit single ‘Too Close’, releases his sophomore album ‘Three Hearts’ though Island Records this week.
‘Three Hearts’, featuring the powerful single ‘War Rages On’, was recorded in London and Los Angeles with Alex collaborating with Dan Wilson (Adele, Paloma Faith), Antony Genn and Martin Slattery of The Hours, Steve Booker (John Newman) and Ben Hudson (Kanye West).
Speaking about the album Alex says “The new music definitely represents the big changes in my life. ‘The Lateness of the Hour’ was a very cathartic album; I was getting a lot of things off my chest… the new record is very much an album of thanksgiving, of gratitude that things have worked out pretty sweetly for me.”
Indeed, a number of the new songs deal directly with the joy that marriage and fatherhood have brought. “If you’re an honest songwriter and live an honest life,” Alex comments, “and you write songs about that, I think most people can relate to it, whether it’s negative or positive; and I hope people will be able to do that on this record, on a human level. The lyrics aren’t far-out, or material-centric, they’re just about living. It’s so boring writing about disastrous things all the time, it’s nice to write about something that’s just really good.”
Alex is without question one of the UK’s biggest international success stories and ‘Three Hearts’ promises to cement his reputation as one of the UK’s most singular and influential talents.
Just over two years ago Alex was in between albums and taking stock of his career when he received a series of emails from Microsoft asking if they could use ‘Too Close’ in a global advertising campaign. The success of this campaign helped Alex to achieve high chart positions in a series of major territories, including a number one, Platinum certified single in Germany and double Platinum status for ‘Too Close’ in the US (2.8 million singles). Further success has been enjoyed in Canada (double Platinum), Austria (Platinum), France (No. 3 iTunes) and Switzerland (Platinum).
