6 October 2026 – Gloria de Oliveira Takes Sacred Hearts Into the Red Lights of St. Pauli

Berlin-based German-Brazilian artist Gloria de Oliveira has premiered the video for "Sacred Hearts," the third single from forthcoming album The Lying Swans, due October 30 through La Double Vie and Cargo Records. Shot around Hamburg's St. Pauli district, the video places the song's longing among bars, photo booths, red lights and fleeting glances between women, giving its private emotional tension a very physical city backdrop.

"Sacred Hearts" examines desire as something felt before it has been safely converted into language, which is an excellent recipe for both beautiful music and very poor decision-making. De Oliveira's wider work draws from dream pop, ethereal wave, ambient music and her Brazilian roots, while her previous collaborations include Oceans of Time with Dean Hurley, the longtime sound designer associated with David Lynch.

The Lying Swans was recorded across Iceland, New York and Berlin and contains nine songs exploring trauma, perception, trust and illusion, with references ranging from the Leda myth to Keats, Emily Brontë and Anne Sexton. That is quite a literary reading list for a dream-pop album, but "Sacred Hearts" keeps the theory grounded in something simpler: wanting somebody to look back.