I Heart Sharks

I Heart Sharks are escapism in it's purest form, creators of daringly ambitious pop music to violently tear you from the dreary quotidian and throw you into a world where promises are kept, where every day is summer and where they don't play Schlager on the radio. It's a balancing act on a tightrope between modern music of the Neuzeit, the New-Age, and the nostalgic tones of times past, a masterpiece of German engineering with a British heart and New York grit.
Since meeting by chance in the late days of summer of 2007, behind the thick concrete walls of Berlin's techno mecca, Berghain, the three young men from three different countries have been touring and spreading their idea of what music can be from abandoned staircases and aircraft hangars to internationally recognised festivals. They make machine music with a human soul, using guitars as synthesisers, and synthesisers as guitars, creating something which disproves the cynical muso opinion that music that moves your feet cannot move your mind, and vice versa.
Taking on a new step after their self-made and fan-funded independently released first album, 'Summer', this second album – their first outing on Island Records – was recorded with Hurts producer Joseph Cross in a disused textile mill in Manchester and in the former GDR radio headquarters in Berlin. The two cities with their important musical history provide a perfect parallel for the music, the northern British red-brick city with it's stormy skies and Factory Records' past meets the formerly split metropolis with it's relentless electronic music scene, Bowie recollections and karaoke bars.
These are urban anthems from the honest side of pop, where everyone from every walk of life is invited, and where all of us can still be heroes.