Dehd Share New Song “Alien”
Poetry Out May 10 via Fat Possum
April 10, 2024
Photo: Atiba Jefferson
Chicago trio Dehd release new album, Poetry, on May 10 via Fat Possum. Now they've shared his third single, “Alien.” Listen below.
“Alien” is about frontwoman Emily Kempf being an alien being. He explains in a press release: “This is about me being a ghost, a light artist, an angel, an alien or maybe some kind of fairy and I want to find someone like me in this world, someone of my kind. Longing for that special person who is so special to me to love, but instead I always come to the same conclusion that I am fated to be some kind of lonely hermit with 1000 friends and that loving myself is the most important and something consistently rewarding to work on and do forever.”
Previously, the band shared the album's first single, “Mood Ring,” via a music video. It was one of the songs of the week. They then shared his second single, “Light On”.
Poetry is the sequel to 2022 Blue skies (also in Fat Possum) and 2020 Flower of Devotion (which was released by Fire Talk).
Dehd is Emily Kempf, Jason Balla and Eric McGrady. After they finished the tour Blue skies, the band began some writing sessions in remote locations. “Eating, sleeping, breathing, living – our only purpose was to write,” Kempf says in a press release.
Whitney's Ziyad Asrar co-produced the album with Balla, recording at Palisade Studios in Chicago. Charles Bukowski's poem “The Laughing Heart” inspired the album.
Read our interview with Dehd at Flower of Devotion.
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