Wings of Desire

“a cohesive post-punk triumph doused in a dream-pop glitter” PASTE Magazine - (Album Of The Week) 

"at their best [Wings Of Desire] tap into something elemental, writing narratives for life’s beauty and tragedy" Under The Radar (Review - 8*)

“A bit like if Bruce Springsteen had a mid-’80s Jesus And Mary Chain phase” Stereogum 
 
”Wings of Desire cite the '00s indie scene and '80s Factory Records as primary influences and you can definitely hear a little New Order (but also a little Springsteen)” Brooklyn Vegan 
 
“Now Hear This” The Independent | "Wings Of Desire craft dazed pop jewels" CLASH 
 
“Uplifting” DIY | “freefalling, expansive indie” DORK 

UK duo Wings of Desire - AKA James Taylor and Chloe Little - release their 13-track debut anthology Life Is Infinite today (December 8th). These are 13 notes and reflections on the human experience. Everything here is temporary but life is infinite. 

A visual for ‘A Million Other Suns’ lands to celebrate the release. 
 
An expansive roll-out over the course of a year has seen the duo populate their world with a string of singles - generally dropped in pairs, highlighting the duality within everything. Over this time they have built up a cult following which looks set to expand as they close out this era with the triumphant whole. 
 
Operating at the intersection between pensive reflection and brash catharsis, Wings of Desire’s gritty dream-pop aims to resolve on a life-affirming beat. Unafraid to look beneath the stone and observe an underworld of destructive social tendencies, there is nonetheless an optimism that things can be different.  
 
The project is born out of questions that may never be answered. James and Chloe draw inspiration from the seminal music of early noughties NYC, Factory Records and Krautrock as well as the philosophies of 20th century thinkers and futurists as Alan Watts, Noam Chomsky and Wim Wenders.  

In a sonic sense, they zero in on a particular lived experience as a key catalyst:  

“We were inspired by a trip to Berlin where we visited the legendary Hansa studios, and got drunk at Neues Ufer.”  

The former guildhall’s iconic acoustics and enviable thread of musical history (at times the haunt of David Bowie, Brian Eno, Iggy Pop and more) makes a perfect spiritual home for the band’s transcendent command of sound and emotion. 

This approach saw Wings Of Desire selected for tours supporting Brooklyn indie darlings Nation of Language in 2022, and Bleach Lab in 2023, and backing from Steve Lamacq and Lauren Laverne on BBC 6 Music, NME Radio, and John Kennedy on Radio X; and Stereogum, PASTE, Brooklyn Vegan, Under The Radar, The Line Of Best Fit, DIY, CLASH, DORK, The Independent and more at press.