Published: October 23, 2024
“The Girl That I Call Home” is Tears for Fears’ first offering from Songs for a Nervous Planet and their first new single since The Tipping Point.
New Wave heroes Tears for Fears have announced their first-ever live album, Songs for a Nervous Planet, out everywhere on October 25th. In addition to live classics recorded during the band’s recent tour, there are four new original tracks on Songs for a Nervous Planet, including today’s teaser track, “The Girl That I Call Home.”
Songs for a Nervous Planet is comprised of 22 tracks, with the four new studio cuts kicking off the album. The rest of the live album follows the career-spanning setlist of Tears for Fears’ “Tipping Point Tour Part II,” with the recordings coming from a July 11th, 2023 show at FirstBank Amphitheater in Franklin, Tennessee. In addition to several cuts from the band’s 2022 album The Tipping Point, Songs for a Nervous Planet features live performances of several Tears for Fears classics like “Everybody Wants to Rule the World,” “Mad World,” “Shout,” and “Head Over Heels.”
Deluxe two CD edition. 2024 release. Songs For A Nervous Planet, features four new studio tracks plus live recordings of Tears for Fears on tour and at their best. The album features live performances of hit songs like "Shout," "Head Over Heels," "Everybody Wants To Rule The World," "Mad World" and more. Spanning all eras of the band from The Hurting to The Tipping Point and beyond, this record takes you on the incomparable sonic journey that is a Tears for Fears live show and their career to date.
The live album also arrives with an accompanying concert film titled Tears For Fears Live (A Tipping Point Film). Shot on the same evening that the live album was recorded in Franklin, Tennessee, the film follows the band as they travel through their lengthy catalogue from the ’80s to today. They’ll be releasing the film in select theaters worldwide from October 24th to 26th via Trafalgar Releasing; check the band’s website to stay updated on the film’s showings.
“We decided to film the live show last year. I think a lot of people don’t know that we are a good live band, actually!,” said Curt Smith in a statement about the album and film. “They see a duo, and they think it’s going to be two people with a couple of keyboards and a bunch of backing tapes, and that’ll be it. Over the years, we’ve vastly improved since our heyday back in the Eighties.” said Roland Orzabal, “We’ve never released an official live album, so you could say this is an album forty years in the making.”
“The Girl That I Call Home” is Tears for Fears’ first offering from Songs for a Nervous Planet and their first new single since The Tipping Point. With dreamy synths, skittering drums, and tender vocals, “The Girl That I Call Home” is a reminder of Tears for Fears’ warmest impulses. Appropriately, Orzabal wrote the track as a love song for his wife Emily, and “The Girl That I Call Home” teems with romance and adoration. Listen to the song below.
