This aptly-named album, Heartbreak, is wonderful. It all started at the Rotary Room, a bar for Hollywood’s night owls. In other words, it’s the perfect setting to start a dark love-story. Three composers met there to form the group Unloved: Jade Vincent, his companion Keefus Ciancia and David Holmes, an ex-trip hop musician turned film score composer, who was notably commissioned by the director Steven Soderbergh. This second album is the perfect soundtrack for mistreated lovers, as it takes the listener through stormy synths, voices set against cold wave beats (Fail We May Sail We Must) grandiloquent tragedies with a sixties feel (Bill, (Sigh)), flashy tambourines (Love Lost), sparkling cymbals (Remember, a duo with Etienne Daho), and completely stripped back tracks ((Sigh), Boy And Girl). We find sixties cinema, distant hints of rockabilly, the elegance of French pop and the nocturnal, sensual and disturbing atmospheres of artists such as Johnny Jewel or Angelo Badalamenti. Everything is wrapped around Jade Vincent's low, languorous voice – one that’s haunted by two almost omnipresent female voices. Heartbreak never felt so good. © Charlotte Saintoin/Qobuz