Dehd - Water (Ice Blue Vinyl)

Dehd - Water (Ice Blue Vinyl)Love is everyday magic. Thats the impression you get listening to Water, the new album by Chicago trio Dehd. Veterans of Chicagos increasingly fruitful DIY scene Jason Balla ( Ne Hi and Earring) Emily Kempf (Vail and formerly with Lala Lala) and drummer Eric McGrady share a strange and inexplicable chemistry. Love rises up into the atmosphere like steam off a summer sidewalk and makes you wild. Love breaks your heart and you consider yourself lucky

exploratory

Formed in 1992

it wouldn't have had such an impact if Verlaine hadn't written an excellent set of songs that conveyed a fractured urban mythology unlike any of his contemporaries

whose crumpling and flattening folds build into a restrained rapture of crisp frequencies and milky reverb-swallowed coruscations

Southern Algeria

the sound of the band began to shift

It is a natural

An emotionally charged palette freely informed by chaos and forged for the inner terrestrial rhythm in each of us

but they're going to take their sweet time doing so

Led by Mary Timony (Ex Hex

in some way dimly understood

two masterpieces that provide the foundation for a remarkable album