Dehd

The Chicago Indie rockers with a pop-punk heart decamped to Taos in New Mexico for album number four, and there must have been something in the water/air/local beers because they've come back with a record that is just dripping with hooks - from the gang vocals of 'Alien' to 'Dog Days' catchy chorus, and the dirty dream quality of 'Mood Rising' - it's a wonder there's any left for the rest of the songwriting world.

Following the whirlwind success of Dehd’s fourth album, 'Blue Skies', and hit single “Bad Love”, they first gathered at Kempf’s off-grid Earthship in Taos, New Mexico where they chopped wood to stay warm and wrote songs during the daylight. They then travelled to a cabin on the Puget Sound to set up their second writing camp where surrounded by chilly waters, time was marked only by the movement of the tides. “Eating, Sleeping, Breathing, Living - our only purpose was to write,” Kempf recalled. This was the first time the band travelled to distinctly notable locations to write and inspire themselves. Leaving Chicago proved to be a watershed moment. They finalized the songs that became Poetry back in Chicago in the warehouse they’ve called home for nearly a decade, where they rehearsed and wrote their entire catalogue. Friend and producer Ziyad Asrar, who co-produced all three Whitney albums, co-produced the album alongside the band’s Jason Balla at Palisade Studio.