Deadletter and the lit fuse tortured punkery of "Hero"

 

"I'm begging god to take me from this horror movie scene..."

Six piece UK alt rock outfit DEADLETTER on the lit fuse scenario of "Hero" swing and slam with huge bass lines, dirty vibraphonic guitar jags, smashed drumming, sort of 50's torture pop saxophone wails and Zac Lawrence's vocal aesthetic that sounds fatalistically dead pan like a suicide squad member wishing to die. The song is informed by stories of firefighters starting the fires they end up putting out in order to come off as heroes like some arsonistic form of Factitious disorder.

I am digging the sound here and I haven't heard a better use of punk forward sax since Richard Hell and the Voidoids. DEADLETTER are Zac Lawrence (Vocals), George Ullyott (Bassist), Alfie Husband (Drummer), Will King (Guitarist), James Bates (Guitarist) and Poppy Richler (Saxophone).

-Robb Donker Curtius

THE FACTS AS WE KNOW THEM - PRESS NOTES:

https://soundcloud.com/deadletter-band

https://open.spotify.com/track/2eDceCLP0YbpYjF5w9fmlM

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC9U6BvqeOtBLOtIeH_SP_tA

DEADLETTER's 2020 debut single "Good Old Days" was a clear stylistic marker of the band’s vision and received both regional BBC and 6Music play, as well as being added to 6Music’s ‘Introducing’ playlist alongside the normal A, B and C list. Follow-up single ‘Fit For Work’ received both regional BBC and 6Music play from Steve Lamacq and Tom Robinson. The track was also made Huw Stephens’ “Tip of the Week” on BBC Radio 1, and a live session of the track was also played on his Introducing show on Radio 1. Third single "Fall of the Big Screen" received national airplay from Steve Lamacq (who chose the band as his ‘Spotlight Artist’) and Tom Robinson on BBC 6Music, and Gemma Bradley on Radio 1.

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