Dehd Share New Single "Letter"!
Dehd are back baby! Emily Kempf, Jason Balla, and EricMc Grady - release a new single and video, “Letter.” The track follows Water, their “effortless and uncomplicated” (Pitchfork) debut album released earlier this year. The video was conceptualized by Kempf and was directed by Ryan Hart, and features numerous tattoo artists from the Chicago-land area. Kempf describes the track below.
"’Letter’ is a visual and sonic representation of the physical embodiment of subtle lingering grief and the arc of healing that follows once love has lost and relationship dynamics have shifted. The pain of one party moving on before the other, leaving a feeling of replacement. The empowerment and strength found from non-sexual friendship, from creative pursuits, and from constant, unapologetic self care, self soothing, and acts of self love. A moving on and moving forward that only happens once one has returned truly to oneself. ‘Letter’ is the beginning of the end of an era.”
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Dehd on Tour
Tue. Oct. 8 - Berlin, DE @ Musik und Frieden &
Wed. Oct. 9 - Hamburg, DE @ Molotow Musikclub &
Fri. Oct. 11 - Rotterdam, NL @ Rotown &
Sat. Oct. 12 - Amsterdam, NL @ Paradiso
Mon. Oct. 14 - Cologne, DE @ MTC &
Tue. Oct. 15 - Paris, FR @ La Boule Noire &
Wed. Oct. 16 - London, UK @ Dome Tufnell Park & - SOLD OUT
Thu. Oct. 17 - Manchester, UK @ Eagle Inn
Fri. Oct. 18 - Leeds, UK @ Brudenell Social Club &
Sat. Oct. 19 - Oxford, UK @ Ritual Union &
Sun. Oct. 20 - Cardiff, UK @ SWN Festival
Tue. Oct. 22 - London, UK @ Rough Trade East
Wed. Oct. 23 - Brighton, UK @ The Prince Albert
&= w/ Twin Peaks
Love is everyday magic. That’s the impression you get listening to Water, the new album by Chicago trio Dehd. Veterans of Chicago’s increasingly fruitful DIY scene Jason Balla ( Ne-Hi and Earring) Emily Kempf (Vail and formerly with Lala Lala) and drummer Eric McGrady share a strange and inexplicable chemistry. Love rises up into the atmosphere like steam off a summer sidewalk and makes you wild. Love breaks your heart and you consider yourself lucky for it. Like water itself, it surrounds us, it supports us; it’s what we’re made of. It takes the shape of its container. The music is hazy and reverb-drenched, a scuzzy and hyped-up take on surf rock that could only come from the Third Coast. It’s all animated by the red-lining feel-good spirit of the Velvet Underground’s Loaded and the breezy melodicism of C86-era indie rock, with a dash of the Cramps’ spooky-hop bop courtesy of McGrady’s locomotive drumming.It’s a clear-eyed look at the wild nature of everyday life that’s been spun up in sugary sweet melodies and scratched-crystal sounds. More than anything, it’s the embodiment of Dehd’s m.o. from the start: As Kempf puts it, “Work with what you have and make it magical.”