Yorkshire post punk band DEADLETTER have announced the release of their highly-anticipated debut album ‘Hysterical Strength‘.
Along with the album announcement, the group premiered the lead single “Mere Mortal“, and it’s accompanying video. The 12-track record will be out on 13th September via SO Recordings. Pre-order it here.
“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.
Produced by famed British producer Jim Abbiss (Arctic Monkeys, Adele), Mere Mortal it’s a model introduction to an album of exploratory art-punk that brews malevolent atmospheres and searches darkened corridors for clarity amongst the cacophony of chaos.
Speaking about it, Lawrence says:
“Though Mere Mortal was written in the wake of personal tragedy, its intention is not to convey the sentiment of subjective grief, but to act as an undoubtedly relatable tale of loss and longing for all those who themselves have been faced with and have had to navigate the confusing, painful landscape that bereavement leaves one confronted by.”
Check out “Mere Mortal” below followed by the album’s artwork and tracklist.
DEADLETTER Hysterical Strength Tracklisting:
- Credit To Treason
- More Heat!
- Mother
- Bygones
- A Haunting
- It Flies
- Hysterical Strength
- Relieved
- Deus Ex Machina
- Practise Whilst You Preach
- Mere Mortal
- Auntie Christ
Photo credit: Daniel Delikatnyi
