Listen Up! No. 80: The High Wire - Pump Your Little Heart

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The third single from this London quintet's criminally underrated album The Sleep Tape, which dropped in March, 'Pump Your Little Heart' sounds like the last sighs of a destructive relationship, wrapped up in dizzy dream-pop, where guitars fade in and out of consciousness and dashed hopes rise like log-fire smoke with each breathy vocal line. It's tailor made for a day snowed in with a saucepan of mulled wine, but you can't get the 7 inch until February. Console yourself with a look at the video, shot with a macro lens - which magnifies tiny objects into full screen images - by director Michael Humphrey, below: