The Heavenly Bodes share new single 'Acting', the third cut lifted from incoming debut LP 'Green Hills' out July 3rd!

This week, The Heavenly Bodes present new single ‘Acting’ – a tumbling sun-bleached psychedelic pop offering sung by lead guitarist Fin. Fin says: “Acting is a song inspired by the face someone made when I excitedly told them I got a job as a cleaner. An erratic waltz recorded in just 37 takes, the accompanying video captures the sauna-like conditions from whence it came. Notice Alex's eyes when he has to turn the fan off, waiting for the whirrs to subside."

Recorded on reel-to-reel tape in a friend’s living room between trips to the beach, ‘Green Hills’ is the sun-warped debut album from Cornish four-piece The Heavenly Bodes, due out July 3rd 2026 on Fuzz Club. The album is available to pre-order on limited green vinyl and black vinyl here

Featuring a collection of lo-fi garage-psych numbers that vary in feel – sometimes twisting and erratic, sometimes sedated and meandering – but all drenched in tape hiss and left out on the pebbles to dry, ‘Green Hills’ represents salad-days dreams of escapism melting under the summer sun, evoking the clammy rooms from which they came.

Emerging from South Cornwall’s grassroots psych scene – through various chance encounters at Kernowbeat (formerly Kernow Psych Society) shows in Falmouth – The Heavenly Bodes channel a shared love of classic 60s acid-garage into something immediate and intimate, and specifically rooted in the here and now of the West Coast cornucopia they call home. Fully self-produced, it captures the band’s loose, unpolished spirit – landing somewhere between scrappy garage-rock abandon and woozy Velvets cool. It’s the sound of jangly surf riffs, hard-hitting bass grooves and hazy organ dissolving into the salty sea air.