While COVID-19 has seen the live scene emptied, more and more artists are using the opportunity to release new music to fill the void, with supergroup The Jaded Hearts Club becoming the latest to do so.
For as long as music has existed, so have supergroups, with some of the finest artists going around coming together to pool their collective talents. While we’re still waiting to hear if Them Crooked Vultures are returning with new music, the latest supergroup on the scene is The Jaded Hearts Club.
Featuring Nic Cester of Jet, Matt Bellamy from Muse, Graham Coxon from Blur, the Last Shadow Puppets’ Miles Kane, and Sean Payne from The Zutons, Rolling Stone reports that the group were first formed by guitarist Jamie Davis in 2017, constructing the band after being unable to find a Beatles cover band for his birthday party.
While Davis had worked with Coxon on his Transcopic Records label, the outfit have since played a handful of shows over the last few years – including one with Paul McCartney – and have reportedly recorded an album full of Northern Soul covers.
“We listened to hours and hours of songs from the Northern Soul/Motown period to choose the right 10 for an album,” Bellamy said in a statement “This perfectly sums up what we are trying to do as The Jaded Hearts Club — to shed light on some of the greatest lost songs ever written.”
Though they had previously released a slick cover of The Isley Brothers’ ‘Nobody But Me‘ early last month, The Jaded Hearts Club have now unleashed another exceptional track, covering Marvin Gaye’s often-overlooked ‘This Love Starved Heart of Mine (It’s Killing Me)’.
“As soon as I heard ‘This Love Starved Heart Of Mine’ I knew Nic Cester from Jet is one of the few people who could actually sing it,” Davis explained. “Nic’s vocal has that gut-wrenching on-pitch scream and raw charisma that provide the driving power needed. The track is like a runaway train — big, brassy, brash… a soul classic.”
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At the current stage, there’s no word as to when we’ll be getting our hands on their debut album (or seeing them live), but you can be sure with such talent all in one place, it’s going to be one hell of a record.
Check out The Jaded Hearts Club covering ‘This Love Starved Heart of Mine (It’s Killing Me)’:
