Goldheart Assembly formed in 2007, naming themselves after a
Guided By Voices song,
The Goldheart Mountaintop Queen Directory. They quickly found a lifelong fan in DJ
Steve Lamacq, who, in February 2009, made them the first unsigned band to record a
Radio 1 Maida Vale Session in over a decade. In the same year, the band performed on the
BBC Introducing Stage at the
Glastonbury Festival, as well as slots at the
Camden Crawl,
Isle of Wight,
Wychwood,
Middlesbrough Music Live,
Reading & Leeds and V festival. Goldheart Assembly’s debut
single, a
double A-side featuring the tracks
"So Long St. Christopher" and "
Oh Really", was released on 15 June 2009 on the independent label Heron Recordings, set up by Pat Long the then assistant editor of the
NME. In late 2009, Goldheart Assembly signed to the independent UK label
Fierce Panda Records, who had previously launched the career of Coldplay. Their debut album,
Wolves and Thieves, was released to digital download on 8 March 2010, with CD release on 15 March. The majority of the album was recorded at
Forncett Industrial Steam Museum in
Norfolk, England, and several tracks feature the sound of live Victorian steam engines. The remaining tracks were recorded at
Jools Holland's Helicon studios with British producer
Laurie Latham. The album received widespread critical praise. The band started working on their second album,
Long Distance Song Effects, in 2011. Twenty five tracks initially recorded in London were gradually whittled down during trips back and forth to Lucerne where they recorded with Swiss musician
Tobi Gmür, who they had met on an earlier European tour.
Long Distance Song Effects, their second album, was released in July 2013. The
Allmusic journalist, Heather Phares, noted that "the control and variety they display throughout
Long Distance Song Effects shows that Goldheart Assembly have come into their own here". The band signed to
Faber Music on 7 May 2013. In 2017, the band signed to LGM Records, a newly founded label run by former EMF and VP of A&R for Epic Records
Ian Dench,
James Dale, Kaziu Gill and Felix Matthews. In December 2017, the band announced that they would be reuniting with original members, Dominic Keshavarz and Thomas Hastings, to perform one final show in London. ''Goldheart Assembly's Last Waltz'' was on 7 December 2017 at
ULU. The band were joined on stage by members of The Magic Numbers,
Starsailor,
EMF, The Bluetones, Treetop Flyers, as well as, Lyla Foy,
Ren Harvieu and Michelle Stodart. ==Press==