Stroud, UK-based duo Wings of Desire — Chloe Little and James Taylor — released their full-length debut, 2023’s Life Is Infinite to critical praise from The Independent, Dork, Clash, The Line of Best Fit, Stereogum, Paste, BrooklynVegan, Under The Radar and a lengthy list of others. The band has received airplay from BBC 6 Music‘s Steve Lamacq and Lauren Laverne, NME Radio and Radio X’s John Kennedy.
Building upon a growing profile in the UK and elsewhere, the duo toured with Editors, Nation of Language and Bleach Lab as an opener, as well as opening for The Cribs at London’s The Roundhouse.
2024’s Shut Up & Listen raised funds for Stroud-based community project The Long Table, a Pay-What-You-Can restaurant, which was at risk of eviction from its home. They followed up with 2025’s standalone “a few more years.”
The duo’s highly-anticipated sophomore album, Stand Still Like The Hummingbird is slated for a December 9, 2026 release. The album will feature their ongoing song cycle in which they release a new track and accompanying video on every new moon of this year’s lunar cycle. Sonically, Stand Still Like The Hummingbird is a continuation of the sound they established on their debut, a mix of gritty dream pop and krautrock.
Thematically, the album’s material touches on the natural rituals of daily life and continually moving through creation and destruction. Throughout the album, there’s references to life and birth, as well as folklore and wonder in the accompanying visuals.
Stand Still Like The Hummingbird will include the previously released “Nothing Left To Give,” and the album’s latest single “Your Twenties.” “Your Twenties” is a hazy, nostalgia-inducing tune that sonically seems to draw from the Madchester scene and early shoegaze: Taylor’s dreamy delivery ethereally floats over boom-bap beats, a relentless motorik groove and swirling wall of sound-meets-Storm in Heaven-like guitar textures. Thematically, the song is a wistful, rose-colored view of one’s youth — from the prospective of someone who’s about to leave their 20s.
“Your twenties explores the reality of living through what’s seen as being your peak when in reality can often be the opposite, filled with learning curves and hard lessons,” the Stroud-based duo explain. “A nostalgic look at an era gone by and a hopeful outlook on what’s to come. Some say these are the best years of your life.”
Directed by Amber Little, the accompanying visual for “Your Twenties” employs a simple conceit: an old tape player in the grass playing the song.
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