Everyone's favourite blackgazers Deafheaven are back with their new album 'Lonely People With Power' via their new label home, Roadrunner Records.
Recorded with producer Justin Meldal-Johnsen [St. Vincent, M83], 'Lonely People With Power' follows Deafheaven’s 2021 studio album, 'Infinite Granite', which saw the GRAMMY-nominated band charting new ground and expanding stylistic boundaries. 'On Lonely People With Power', Deafheaven again confound expectations, piling element on element, and towering towards the sky with their most ambitious release yet. Tracked at EastWest Studios, 'Lonely People With Power' includes additional vocal contributions from Jae Matthews of Boy Harsher and Paul Banks of Interpol.
The band return to the UK in June to play Manchester’s acclaimed Outbreak Fest.
STAFF COMMENTS
Fred says: ‘Lonely People With Power’ is a timely return for Deafheaven, bringing back the Blackgaze sound that let them outshine their peers and in my opinion eclipsing their modern classic ‘Sunbather’.
Over its hour-long runtime, the album mixes manic drumming and guitars that bleed noise with moments of respite created by the "Incidentals" that feature guest vocals from the likes of Paul Banks and Jae Matthews.
The final track, "The Marvelous Orange Tree" is a standout, calling back to the final track of their seminal album, ‘The Pecan Tree’, as it bounces around between the almost melodic sound of the intros of previous tracks on the album and the wall of sound that the rest of the album accompanies resulting in a satisfying finale. I do think, with this obsession they seem to have with trees, however they could have been arborists in another life.
TRACK LISTING
1. Incidental I
2. Doberman
3. Magnolia
4. The Garden Route
5. Heathen
6. Amethyst
7. Incidental II (feat. Jae Matthews)
8. Revelator
9. Body Behavior
10. Incidental III (feat. Paul Banks)
11. Winona
12. The Marvelous Orange Tree
