For nearly a decade, Jadu Heart have toiled in the liminal, endlessly explorable space between pop and the underground, following every whim wherever it took them – from sinewy electronic funk on 2016’s Wanderflower to lithe jazz and ambient electronic music on 2019’s Melt Away to blissful post-shoegaze on 2020’s Hyper Romance. With 2023’s anxious wall of sound Derealised, Diva Jeffrey and Alex Headford finally felt like they had broken through to a new plane. They went on tour in America and came home buzzing. Then, they broke up. But the band stayed together.
Post Heaven, the London duo’s resplendent, wounded fourth album, finds Jeffrey and Headford in the aftermath of that seismic personal and professional event, sifting through the remnants of their relationship and putting them back together. A shimmering odyssey of warped electronic folk, fragmented rock and warm dance music, Post Heaven finds Jeffrey and Headford memorialising their relationship with clarity and empathy, creating a memoir in duet form along the way. Even if the pair are no longer together as a couple, they have never been stronger as a band.
“Working on music after the breakup was nice in a way, because it kept us tethered together,” recalls Headford. The pair wrote the bulk of the songs on the album in the space of a month, and “the best ones ended up being the ones that were about the breakup,” he says.“Before we’d even started, I was like, ‘I don’t want to write one more love song’, but as we chipped away at the album, it was like, that one’s a love song, that one’s a love song… Even though they’re about the breakup – which they’re gonna be, you know.”
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