ives. – Heart Is The Home: 13th Floor New Song Of The Day
London-based, New Zealand pop singer ives. has shared the music video for ‘Heart is the Home’, the third single from her forthcoming debut album Siren, releasing 3rd October 2025.
Here is the blurb with more:
The release follows the first two singles Babylon and Lonely Tears, featured in Rolling Stone, Sniffers and Coup de Main.
Heart is the Home is a stripped-back, honest offering from ives.—“a tangible and real piece of my heart,” she says. Brought to life with delicate vocals and gentle guitar lines, the song’s genesis began as a poem written by ives. in 2016 as an anniversary gift for her then-boyfriend. Years later, the melody of the verse came as ives. sat at her childhood piano during the break-up of their seven year relationship in 2023. She then brought the material to life with coproducer Mark Perkins (Merk), who had the idea of overlaying the original poem onto the existing melody.
“Less is often more, and Heart is the Home encapsulates a feeling that other words would struggle to say,” says ives. “I consider this song a sacrifice to Eros, the god of love himself.”
With its raw and vulnerable lyrics about the precipice between love and heartbreak, ‘Heart is the Home’ is the most honest release so far from ives; a direct calling from Liv herself, the girl behind the moniker. “It’s a reflection of one of the things that makes us most human, and a reminder that pain can create beauty,” says ives. “Because to love, is to lose.”
The one-take music video was filmed and graded by London-based creative duo Pippa Haslam and Peter Furlong, and it finds ives. drawing on her professional dance background with a raw, real & completely improvised movement in a grassy field in East London.
“Your heart’s the home I’ve been waiting to know
Like a flower in bud, ready to grow
Your love’s the seed i’ve been waiting to sow
In a lush, green, abundant meadow
As the winter sun fails to glow
And the mountains slowly pile with snow
I’ll see you then, as all I know
Is that home is all I’ve been waiting to know”
‘Heart is the Home’ was written and produced by ives. with Mark Perkins (Merk). Mastered by Paul Gold of Salt Mastering (Bon Iver – ‘Blood Bank’, Beach House – ‘7’, Suki Waterhouse – ‘I Can’t Let Go’).
The upcoming album Siren includes first single ‘Babylon’, a delicate ode to our existential grappling with the passage of time, with a video from director Peter Furlong and starring Izzy Woods. The second single was ‘Lonely Tears’, a richly textured alt-pop banger accompanied by a 3D music video from animator Pippa Haslam, long-time friend and collaborator of ives. The psychedelic, neon-rich video depicts a lonely Siren surrounded by the ghosts of her past.
‘Heart is the Home’, ‘Lonely Tears’ and ‘Babylon’ mark a reintroduction for ives. following an emotionally turbulent few years. Following the release of Fallin’ For You in 2021, the rising pop singer then became the full-time carer for her mother diagnosed with multiple sclerosis. When her mum then moved to a permanent care facility, ives. found herself also dealing with the breakup of a seven-year relationship; songwriting was her salvation, a cathartic lifeline. After moving to London in early 2025, ives. is ready to reassert herself as she prepares to release Siren in October.
ives. began writing music while studying dance full-time in Sydney in 2016. She draws heavily on her background in movement and love of the piano, which she began learning at the age of five on her Great-grandmother’s Gulbransen Pianola. ives.’ alternative and electro-pop hits have collectively garnered millions of streams online, and circulated on both NZ mainstream and student radio stations, charting on the Aotearoa Top 40 and placing her in a multitude of editorial and individual playlists on Spotify, with All Night Long featuring in Vogue France’s ‘Février 2020’, mix and Rain on ‘Just Chill’. She recently collaborated with Heavy Chest on their single ‘Next to My Body’, and Shannon Matthew Vanya on Saw It In Your Eyes, co-written by The Phoenix Foundation’s Samuel Flynn Scott.
You can find ives. at heartbreak for artsake and her monthly residency on Mouthfull Radio, into the waves w/ives.
To stay tuned on her upcoming tour dates & releases:
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