Your Heart Breaks is the indie-pop vision of Pacific Northwest musician, artist, and filmmaker Clyde Petersen. Love, friendship, late-night adventures, obscure films and literature, queer identity and self-conceptualization come up often in Petersen’s work. Not quite fitting the Riot Grrrl or indie or twee scenes, YHB were just earnest people playing pop music in a small town for whoever would listen.
In the summer of 2022, the Your Heart Breaks studio band, made up of Clyde Petersen, Eli Moore and Ashley Eriksson from the band LAKE and Katherine Paul from Black Belt Eagle Scout, gathered at the Unknown Studio in Anacortes, Washington with producer Nicholas Wilbur to record the songs that would eventually become The Wrack Line.
A song seeped in Pacific Northwest feels, “Do you dare to dream with me?” is a vivid and sonically intoxicating new track from Your Heart Breaks. Featuring Wayne Greenwood, the song is seeped in lyrical intellect and colored by a call to action, a desire for more equal space to inhabit, and an asking of eyes to be opened. “Do you dare to dream with me” is a brave and emotive musical endeavor.
“Wynne Greenwood and I wrote this song by trading beats, lyrics, keyboards riffs and conceptual ideas. We took the demo to the studio and worked with the live band to track it. At the heart of this song are questions: How can we align ourselves within the community to create spaces where we each feel truly seen and free to be our truest selves? How can we hold these ephemeral and temporary spaces as we grow and change? How can we create a daily experience in which we can all thrive?” says Peterson.
“In a world that is aggressively trying to eradicate queer and trans people, being able to access these safe spaces is truly necessary. I was thinking about my body and reflecting on times when I have felt truly myself. On the road, in touring vans with working-class queers, driving from town to town, playing shows and living in a dream state that can’t last forever, but in those moments, feels so safe and important for our well-being.”
