DEADLETTER share video for new single 'Relieved' and announce UK instore performances. Debut album 'Hysterical Strength' out 13th September via SO Recordings.
DEADLETTER are today sharing the video for new single 'Relieved', the latest track to be taken from forthcoming debut album Hysterical Strength (13th September via SO Recordings). 'Relieved' follows lead single 'Mere Mortal' - which saw a raft of early media support and landed on the BBC 6 Music playlist - and the incendiary follow-up 'Mother'.
Today's new single finds its motivation in discomfort, the band delivering one of the album's saxophones-to-the-front heavy hitters.
Lead singer Zac Lawrence says about the song:
"Ever been collared by the most bizarre person in a smoking area and wondered how to escape? Too polite to simply turn your back on said oddball?
Relieved is about this very British problem of over-minding one’s manners and the inability to remove oneself from an encounter that oozes discomfort."
Produced by famed British producer Jim Abbiss (Arctic Monkeys, Adele), the album's opening statements make for a model introduction to a record of exploratory art-punk that brews malevolent atmospheres and searches darkened corridors for clarity amongst the cacophony of chaos.
The world is brutal but there are cherry trees in blossom. This is the philosophy that underpins DEADLETTER, and their bruising, beautiful debut album Hysterical Strength.
“It's punishing but there's also fucking beauty out there,”
explains frontman Zac Lawrence, who, with life-long friends Alfie Husband and George Ullyott, and Poppy Richler, Sam Jones and Will King, may just have turned in one of 2024’s most urgent and vital listens – a record that, right down to its title, relishes the contradictions of modern life.
“Being able to take something disgusting or disgraceful and make it sound nice through the power of music, that juxtaposition appeals to me,”
Lawrence adds. The result is twelve tracks of motorik rhythms and angular guitars, adorned by smoky saxophone and baritone-belted lyrics about flickering television sets and dilapidated town centres decked with decapitated bodies. Its strengths are hysterical indeed.
In their short time releasing music the band has picked up support from the likes of BBC Radio 1, Clash, DIY, Dork, Kerrang!, Metro, NME, So Young, The Times, and also landed on the 6 Music playlist. They've sold out shows across the UK and Europe and in October 2024 will begin their biggest headline run to date.
Photo credit: Daniel Delikatnyi
DEADLETTER - UK Instore Tour
13 Sept - Resident, Brighton, UK
15 Sept - Rough Trade, Liverpool, UK
18 Sept - Rough Trade, Bristol, UK
21 Sept - Rough Trade East, London, UK
Tickets available here
DEADLETTER
Hysterical Strength 2024 headline tour dates
26 Sept - Empire, Belfast, NI
27 Sept - Dolan's Kasbha, Limerick, IE
28 Sept - TheGrand Social, Dublin, IE
11 Oct - Le Grand Mix, Tourcoing, FR
12 Oct - La Maroquinerie, Paris, FR
14 Oct - Les Abbatoirs, Cognac, FR
16 Oct - Cafe Berlin, Madrid, ESP
17 Oct - Razz 3, Barcelona, ESP
19 Oct - Covo, Bologna, IT
20 Oct - Arci Belleza, Milan, IT
22 Oct - Exil, Zurich, CH
23 Oct - Strom, Munich, DE
24 Oct - Arena, Vienna, AUT
25 Oct - Bike Jesus, Prague, CZ
26 Oct - Frannz, Berlin, DE
28 Oct - Molotow, Hamburg, DE
29 Oct - Gebaude 9, Cologne, DE
30 Oct - Trix, Antwerp, BE
31 Oct - Les Primeurs de Massy, Massy, FR
02 Nov - Doornroosje, Nijmegen, NL
03 Nov - Maassilo, Rotterdam, NL
04 Nov - Tolhuistuin, Amsterdam, NL
06 Nov - Thekla, Bristol, UK
07 Nov - Rescue Rooms, Nottingham, UK
08 Nov - Band on the Wall, Manchester, UK
09 Nov - Stylus LUU, Leeds, UK
10 Nov - St Lukes, Glasgow, UK
12 Nov - The Cluny, Newcastle, UK
13 Nov - Crookes Social Club, Sheffield, UK
14 Nov - Chalk, Brighton, UK
16 Nov - Electric Brixton, London, UK
Tickets are available to buy here
DEADLETTER - Hysterical Strength
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