UK post-punk band DEADLETTER are today sharing ‘More Heat!‘, the latest new single to be taken from the band’s forthcoming debut album Hysterical Strength (13th September via SO Recordings). Following a string of BBC 6 Music-playlisted singles from the record (‘Relieved‘ hits the A-list at the station this week) ‘More Heat!’ encompasses all of the things that DEADLETTER do best. Welding elastic basslines, scratchy and discordant guitars, and rasping saxophones, ‘More Heat!’ makes for an addictive, off-kilter examination of self-deception.
Lead singer Zac Lawrence says about the song: “More Heat! is about the way in which someone may attempt to convince themself they are feeling enjoyment from something that in reality is causing them a disturbance. Whether it be to preserve face, or simply through an inability to swallow their pride and accept that a spell of discomfort as a result of change far outweighs continuously doing something from which there is no contentment to be found.”
Produced by famed British producer Jim Abbiss (Arctic Monkeys, Adele), the album’s opening statements make for a model introduction to a record of exploratory art-punk that brews malevolent atmospheres and searches darkened corridors for clarity amongst the cacophony of chaos.
EADLETTER – UK Instore Tour
Tickets available here
13 Sept – Resident, Brighton, UK
15 Sept – Rough Trade, Liverpool, UK
18 Sept – Rough Trade, Bristol, UK
19 Sept – Assai, Edinburgh, UK
21 Sept – Rough Trade East, London, UK
The world is brutal but there are cherry trees in blossom. This is the philosophy that underpins DEADLETTER, and their bruising, beautiful debut album Hysterical Strength. “It’s punishing but there’s also fucking beauty out there,” explains frontman Zac Lawrence, who, with life-long friends Alfie Husband and George Ullyott, and Poppy Richler, Sam Jones and Will King, may just have turned in one of 2024’s most urgent and vital listens – a record that, right down to its title, relishes the contradictions of modern life. “Being able to take something disgusting or disgraceful and make it sound nice through the power of music, that juxtaposition appeals to me,” Lawrence adds. The result is twelve tracks of motorik rhythms and angular guitars, adorned by smoky saxophone and baritone-belted lyrics about flickering television sets and dilapidated town centres decked with decapitated bodies. Its strengths are hysterical indeed.
DEADLETTER – Hysterical Strength 2024 headline tour dates
Tickets are available to buy here
26 Sept – Empire, Belfast, NI
27 Sept – Dolan’s Kasbha, Limerick, IE
28 Sept – TheGrand Social, Dublin, IE
11 Oct – Le Grand Mix, Tourcoing, FR
12 Oct – La Maroquinerie, Paris, FR
14 Oct – Les Abbatoirs, Cognac, FR
16 Oct – Cafe Berlin, Madrid, ESP
17 Oct – Razz 3, Barcelona, ESP
19 Oct – Covo, Bologna, IT
20 Oct – Arci Belleza, Milan, IT
22 Oct – Exil, Zurich, CH
23 Oct – Strom, Munich, DE
24 Oct – Arena, Vienna, AUT
25 Oct – Bike Jesus, Prague, CZ
26 Oct – Frannz, Berlin, DE
28 Oct – Molotow, Hamburg, DE
29 Oct – Gebaude 9, Cologne, DE
30 Oct – Trix, Antwerp, BE
31 Oct – Les Primeurs de Massy, Massy, FR
02 Nov – Doornroosje, Nijmegen, NL
03 Nov – Maassilo, Rotterdam, NL
04 Nov – Tolhuistuin, Amsterdam, NL
06 Nov – Thekla, Bristol, UK
07 Nov – Rescue Rooms, Nottingham, UK
08 Nov – Band on the Wall, Manchester, UK
09 Nov – Stylus LUU, Leeds, UK
10 Nov – St Lukes, Glasgow, UK
12 Nov – The Cluny, Newcastle, UK
13 Nov – Crookes Social Club, Sheffield, UK
14 Nov – Chalk, Brighton, UK
16 Nov – Electric Brixton, London, UK
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