Heartworms shares her new single “Extraordinary Wings”, the track is off the forthcoming Dan Carey produced debut album Glutton For Punishment, available February 7th via Speedy Wunderground (O., Honeyglaze). “Extraordinary Wings” is paired with a video directed by Heartworms’ frequent collaborator Gilbert Trejo.

Following October’s “Warplane”, “Extraordinary Wings” pays homage to Heartworms’ love of aircraft, and the chanted refrain “I don’t wish murder / Cause I got no right” becomes a haunting hook. Says Heartworms: “I don’t have the time of day to tell you what you want to hear. With my EP, people kind of pigeonholed me into post-punk,” she says. “I was like, ‘Cool, I can do that, but I can also do way more’ – I can do post-punk, but I can also be poppy and catchy, and this album represents that. I think people might be surprised when they hear it.”

When it came time for Jojo Orme, aka Heartworms, to name her hugely anticipated debut album, few phrases could as easily capture the discomforting feelings at the heart of her songs. Across Glutton For Punishment’s nine sharply realised agit-pop tracks, Orme sings about broken families and broken relationships with bracing frankness – every song shot through with the unnerving feeling that maybe she enjoys the chaos. “We’re all so drawn to punishing ourselves, and I’m always drawn to singing about it, and thinking about it,” she says.

Glutton For Punishment is the follow-up to her 2023 EP A Comforting Notion, The 26-year-old musician deftly weaving stories about her childhood and her fractured relationship with her mother with the images of war and human suffering that have captivated and shocked her since she was young. The end result is a life affirming exercise, an opportunity to expel her own self and passions; which include military history (she regularly volunteers at The Royal Air Force Museum in Hendon) and the poetry of Pound, Thomas, and Keats.

Heartworms
Glutton For Punishment
Speedy Wunderground

1. In The Beginning
2. Just To Ask A Dance
3. Jacked
4. Mad Catch
5. Extraordinary Wings
6. Warplane
7. Celebrate
8. Smuggler’s Adventure
9. Glutton For Punishment

Pre-order Glutton For Punishment HERE