Empty Hearts

The Clear Hearts are four guys with impressive musical résumés who’ve joined collectively to try out music they love — simple, straightforward, but soulful rock & roll informed by ’60s garage rock and Uk Invasion sounds. The Clear Hearts feature Wally Palmar from the Romantics on business lead vocals, rhythm acoustic guitar, and harmonica; Elliot Easton from the Vehicles on business lead acoustic guitar and vocals; Andy Babiuk from the Chesterfield Kings on bass and vocals; and Clem Burke of Blondie on drums and vocals. The theory for the Clear Hearts found Babiuk while he was offering period-appropriate music equipment for David Chase’s ’60s rock and roll film Not FADE; focusing on the film reminded him from the enjoyment and spontaneity of playing music in his teenage years, and he wished to type a music group with some close friends that would experience as fun and as effective. Babiuk 1st recruited his longtime friend Palmar for the task, and they after that earned their mutual close friends Burke (who experienced used Palmar in the Romantics) and Easton (who experienced done session use Blondie). Babiuk’s friend Steven Vehicle Zandt recommended the name the Clear Hearts, and the brand new quartet surely got to function writing tunes. The band collected in Rochester, NY in March 2013 at Babiuk’s documenting studio room Fab Gear, with Ed Stasium as maker and former Encounters keyboard participant Ian McLagan guesting on piano and body organ. In five times, the Clear Hearts knocked out an album’s value of new materials, and after dazzling a cope with 429 Information, the album, merely called The Clear Hearts, premiered in August 2014.