(May 6, 2026) Brandi & the Alexanders’ transformation from a 11-piece cover band that wowed New York city to a quintet that makes original music fusing soul, rock, disco and blues is an example of addition by subtraction. The focus heard in the Brandi Thompson’s songwriting and powerful vocals is further refined in a tight band that blazes through the funky disco heard on the latest single “The Heart Don’t Heal.”
The tune officially drops on May 8. This is trippy number that features keyboards that are atmospheric, insistent guitar riffs and a bass line that will draw dancers to the floor like magnets. All those elements stand below Thompson’s energetic and passionate vocals that tell the story of a woman with a heart that refuses her head’s desire to move on.
“The Heart Don’t Heal” finds Thompson counting the numerous reasons why logic tells her to leave the past in the past. She can’t trust him. They are incompatible in so many ways. He’s let her down and left her in tears too many times to count. Yet, all that melts away when the cross paths on a random night. That chance encounter is all that’s needed to let her know that she hasn’t moved on.
Brandi tells us, “The song came from a close friend’s story. He’d been in a long relationship; they had been through a lot together, and it was the kind you don’t fully release yourself from, even after it ends. We wanted to give voice to that push and pull, the way your heart and mind know they need to move on but can’t quite get there.”
Check out the World Premiere of “The Heart Don’t Heal” here.
By Howard Dukes
