The third album from Pale Blue Eyes is called New Place – a title that connects with fresh horizons and extensive travel, including a move from Devon for Sheffield. For PBE, 2024 started with a tour of 12 European countries with Slowdive. The year’s end brought more movement for the married couple at the band’s core – singer and guitarist Matt Board and drummer and synth expert Lucy Board. Sadly, family tragedy catalysed a move from South Devon to South Yorkshire.

Pale Blue Eyes first two albums, Souvenirs (2022) and This House (2023) were recorded at the studio Matt and Lucy had built at Matt’s family home in rural Devon. Then Matt’s mum died, following a long-term illness. The family home had to be sold. The band’s studio had to be relocated.

This change took Lucy back to Sheffield, where she’d grown up, playing in teenage bands. As with the first two PBE albums, the new album is mixed and mastered by a noted Sheffield musical figure, Dean Honer; is renowned for his musical output (Moonlandingz, I Monster,The Eccentronic Research Council) and for his production and mixing work (Róisín Murphy, Add N To (X), The Human League).