Deadletter

Deadletter release their new 7” single, ‘PopCulture Connoisseur’.

Hailing from Yorkshire, thenow South London rooted band channel the drollfury of The Fall and the lopsided rhythms of TalkingHeads into a strain of danceable post-punk,exploring the darker side of existence through alens of narrative-driven levity. Previously supporting the likes of Squid, ViagraBoys and Pip Blom, Deadletter have emerged as agenuinely thrilling live prospect. Experts in the fieldof intensity, the band seamlessly switch fromconversational verses into a mix of unadulteratedpost-punk fury and irresistible rhythm, addressingthemes such as bureaucracy, loss of personalidentity and modern-day consumerism. New single, ‘Pop Culture Connoisseur’, producedby Theo Verney (TRAAMS, Lazarus Kane, FEET),finds singer and frontman Zac Lawrence switchingfrom the overt politicism of previous releases into amore tongue-in-cheek narrative centred around thecase of PC Read, a police officer fired for stealingdoughnuts through a self-service checkout. Inaddition to providing a case study into the fashionthose in positions of authority often considerthemselves above the law, the track also aims tocomment at the manner modern morality so oftenrelates to PR optics, as the cultural trope of lawenforcement eating doughnuts is played out in realtime.