Heart Beat EP is the first fully independent release from Fragile Creatures. Having been frustrated by the time it took to get our debut album released - it came out two years after we finished recording sessions - we were keen to get to work on a follow-up straight away, having already written plenty of new material. James and I bought some recording equipment, and started experimenting with recording demos in our rehearsal room. About a year and a half into these experiments we started to get some really promising results. I started to think we had a shot at recording ourselves to a standard that was worthy of release... but I wasn't sure how to actually release stuff - did we need a publisher? A new label?

I decided to go back to college, studying an MA in the Music Industry at Brighton's new independent music college, WaterBear, while we finished off the recordings. As I learnt more and more about the industry, and how drastically things had changed since the internet moved all the goalposts, I became more and more interested in working as a fully independent act. I was doing so much of the label administrative work, booking the shows and running all the social media anyway... now that we could record ourselves too a record label seems redundant.

For this release we picked 4 songs from the 14 we've recorded, to finish off and release as an EP, as a way of testing the water with this new independent approach. The songs are all loosely themed about different kinds of love, and the act of making it and now releasing it is having the affect of resuscitating the band... getting our collective hearts ticking creatively again!

It's been a lot of fun working on this project, one I expect will only get more exciting as we progress into finishing the rest of the songs off for a follow-up album. I think the songs are some of the best we've ever written. It's also been incredible to work this freely: earlier this week we finished the mix of Can You? and 24 hours later it was being played on the local BBC Introducing Show! Next week we'll be sharing the music video we already filmed for it - all done with an almost zero budget. I hope you like the stuff, and want to join us for the rest of this adventure!

Thanks for listening,

Adam Kidd
31/3/2019