{"product_id":"a-thousand-hearts-2","title":"A Thousand Hearts","description":"\u003cp\u003eRelocated from Durban to Simon’s Town, Cape Town, Wren Hinds recorded his second album in 2018. A small-town kid in a big city, he channelled his sense of displacement into a fluent range of songs, linked by a feeling for place and space. Drawn from a poem by his uncle Keith Erasmus, the lovelorn waltz of ‘Sadness in the Wind’ is a beatific stand-out, Wren evoking Karen Dalton in his wavering, multi-tracked voice. Elsewhere, an ear for layered details and discreet tonal shifts asserts itself. On ‘Run’, a piano and a finger-picked guitar share mutually supportive space. On ‘Lights’, the guitar displays just a hint of swagger. Meanwhile, also drawing on Erasmus’s poetry, the title-track’s wonky ballroom lament sums up the album at a soothing stroke: “There’s beauty in the sadness, and there’s beauty in the pain\/ And in the melancholic madness and its bittersweet refrain.” Wherever you listen, essentially.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Bella Union","offers":[{"title":"White LP","offer_id":50490358661451,"sku":"2001086","price":23.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0867\/1120\/6219\/files\/a3790517382_16_38930918_thumbnail_4096.jpg?v=1727659663","url":"https:\/\/shop.roughtrade.com\/products\/a-thousand-hearts-2","provider":"Rough Trade","version":"1.0","type":"link"}