Headache: The Head Hurts But The Heart Knows The Truth (2LP) [PLZ MAKE IT RUINS]

Why you'll love it

This 2LP set on Vegyn's own PLZ Make It Ruins label puts the album on one disc and the instrumentals on the other. Vegyn, the London producer who worked on Frank Ocean's Blonde and Endless, made it with lyricist Francis Hornsby Clark.

This edition

• 2LP set
• Bonus LP of instrumentals

About the album

Headache is what happens when one of London's most in-demand producers decides to make a record of stories. Vegyn (Joe Thornalley) built the music out of blurry breakbeats and soft synths, and Francis Hornsby Clark wrote the words: wry, lonely monologues about parties and the bit of the night when everyone has gone home.

The vocals are delivered by an AI voice, which Vegyn confirmed at the time, and it suits the songs' slightly detached tone; "The Party That Never Ends" and "The Beginning Of The End" are the ones that stick. A second Headache album followed in 2025. It is the most comforting record we know about feeling slightly worse for wear, and we've done the research.

Tracklist

Listen

On PLZ Make It Ruins (cat# PLZ051), first out in 2023.