Dehd Announce April Dates w/ Vundabar
Dehd’s first slice of 2020 tour dates have been announced, they’ll join Vundabar on an East coast run in April, expect plenty more announcements and dates in the coming weeks and new in the new year.
Sat- Apr 11 Orlando, FL @ Soundbar
Sun- Apr 12 Atlanta, GA @ The Masquerade (Purgatory)
Mon- Apr 13 Nashville, TN @ The High Watt
Tue- Apr 14 Asheville, NC @ The Mothlight
Wed- Apr 15 Durham, NC @ Motorco Music Hall
Thu- Apr 16 Washington, DC @ U Street Music Hall
Fri- Apr 17 Philadelphia, PA @ First Unitarian Church
Fri- Apr 24 Boston, MA @ Paradise Rock Club
Wed- Apr 29 Brooklyn, NY @ Rough Trade
Thu- Apr 30 New York, NY @ Bowery Ballroom
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.”