Dehd Share "On My Side" Video !
Dehd has shared a new video for Water stand out track "On My Side". Water is due out May 10th on Fire Talk. The song is one of the more emotionally raw songs off the record, and features a chill-inducing chorus from singer/bassist Emily Kempf. The video, which also features Kempf prominently (exclusively, one might say!), was shot as the band traveled back to Chicago from this year's SXSW. Stereogum calls it "scrappy, endearing indie rock". and we couldn't agree more.
Emily says "We shot this video on our way home from this year's South By. The wide-open spaces of rural Texas have a certain magic that's so different from the compact, vertical reality of Chicago life. There's a sort of longing in the distant horizon that felt similar to what's happening in the song. As we drove north, we kept our eyes peeled for the perfect stretch of land until we found this gravel road a little off the highway."
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.”