Glasvegas
It's My Own Cheating Heart That Makes Me Cry

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“Majestic anthems and heartbreaking emotion from Scotland’s newest heroes.” NME

Glasvegas release new single “It’s My Own Cheating Heart That Makes Me Cry” on Valentines Day 2008, through Sane Man Recordings. It will be available on limited edition 7” vinyl and download.

“Cheating Heart…” is the follow up to “Daddy’s Gone”, a track so special it was voted runner up in the NME’s Tracks Of 2008 issue and raved about in the pages of Uncut, Q, The Guardian and the Sunday Times. But where “Daddy’s Gone” saw singer James Allan take lyrical aim at an absent father, “Cheating Heart…” sees him battling with a demon even closer to home — himself.

Guilt, paranoia, deceit, infidelity… all are explored in shocking honesty, as James admits: “My attitude is always I and me and mine.”  In the grand canon of pop songwriting, where the singer almost always plays the hard-done-to victim, “Cheating Heart…” stands out a mile. An epic confrontation between man and the darkest retreats of his own soul, consider it a musical Apocalypse Now, thrashing and crashing its way to a dramatic conclusion.

The band have plenty more songs like this at their disposal. Well-versed in rock’s rich history, Glasvegas marry classic 50’s songwriting with the sinister fuzz of Suicide and the Velvets. Yet these are songs that could only ever have come from spending the last two decades in Glasgow’s notorious east end. Senseless murders? Family breakdown? The pressure to conform to macho stereotypes? Just some of the things lead singer / guitarist and songwriter James Allan tackles, backed up by Paul Donoghue (bass), Rab Allan (Guitar), Caroline Mckay (drums) and their thundering wall of sound.