San Diego based late-90s/00s band The Black Heart Procession announce the remastered reissue of their 1998 debut album 1 via Solid Brass Records. The newly remastered single "Blue Water - Black Heart" is available now to hear and share on all DSPs HERE.
The band also announce new headlining tour dates for February 2026. Please see all dates below.
Emerging from San Diego’s shadowed coastline in 1997, The Black Heart Procession began as the dark-hearted alter-ego of Pall Jenkins and Tobias Nathaniel, formerly of Three Mile Pilot. Their debut album 1, released in 1998, introduced a sound that felt both ancient and cinematic — pianos creaking like ship timbers, guitars bleeding reverb, and Jenkins’ voice cutting through the gloom like a late-night confession.
The duo has been joined over the years by a revolving cast of musicians including drummers Joe Plummer (Modest Mouse, Cold War Kids), Mario Rubalcaba (Rocket From The Crypt, Hot Snakes, Clikatat Ikatowi), and Zeke Howard (Love As Laughter) as well as bassist Jimmy LaValle and violinist Matt Resovich from The Album Leaf. The band's line-up has expanded and contracted, but at its heart and soul remains Jenkins and Nathaniel, creating timeless, heart-wrenching classics that are adventurous, eclectic, and consistently brilliant.
Across eight studio albums for labels such as Headhunter, Touch and Go, Konkurrent, and Temporary Residence, the band has remained a rare constant in the landscape of slowcore, gothic Americana, and experimental rock. Their music blurs the boundaries between song and séance — haunted, romantic, and impossibly human.
Now, Solid Brass Records proudly reissues 1, with updated artwork, giving new listeners and longtime devotees a chance to experience the record that set the foundation for a catalog of modern melancholia.
The band’s story continues: following a 2024 European tour (Italy, Greece) and a US run with Modest Mouse, The Black Heart Procession will join the 2026 Ice Cream Floats Cruise alongside Kurt Vile, Portugal. The Man, Ugly Casanova, and more. With Solid Brass, the band also prepares additional archival projects — beginning with the Hearts and Tanks EP, arriving on streaming for the first time in September 2025.
1 remains a record that sounds less like a debut and more like a séance — proof that heartbreak can echo beautifully for decades.
1 will be available on remastered vinyl LP and streaming/download on February 13th, 2026 via Solid Brass Records. Pre-orders are available HERE.
THE BLACK HEART PROCESSION - LIVE 2026:
02/01 San Diego, CA - The Casbah
02/05-09 Modest Mouse Dominican Republic cruise
02/11 Philadelphia, PA - Johnny Brenda's
02/12 Washington, DC - DC9
02/13 Hamden, CT - Space Ballroom
02/14 New York, NY - Mercury Lounge
02/15 Boston, MA - Sonia
02/17 Cleveland, OH - Beachland Tavern
02/18 Chicago, IL - Sleeping Village
Artist: The Black Heart Procession
Album: 1
Record Label: Solid Brass Records
Release Date: February 13, 2026
A1: The Waiter
A2: The Old Kind of Summer
A3: Release My Heart
A4: Even Thieves Couldn't Lie
A5: Blue Water - Black Heart
A6: Heart Without a Home
B1: The Winter My Heart Froze
B2: Stitched to My Heart
B3: Square Heart
B4: In a Tin Flask
B5: A Heart the Size of a Horse
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