Cheval Sombre’s incredible new album ‘Mad Love’ is now available for pre-order in the Sonic Cathedral Shop – it is available on both crystal clear 180g vinyl (with card to download free 320kbps MP3s) and CD.

We also have a small amount of copies of the first, self-titled Cheval Sombre album, released a few years back on Dean & Britta’s own Double Feature label for sale, along with with the limited-edition purple vinyl 7″ of ‘Couldn’t Do’, released earlier this year on Trensmat. Grab copies here before they go.

‘Mad Love’ is released on November 5, but pre-orders will ship as soon as we receive the finished stock. Above you can see the beautiful artwork, designed by the hugely talented Sharon Lock, and based on the letters of Emma Hauck, a schizophrenic whose series of heartbreaking missives to her husband were found at a German asylum following her death. Each had the same phrase repeated time and again: “Sweetheart come”. Mad love, indeed.

Cheval Sombre also handwrote this letter explaining how this “delirious swoon” of an album came about…