Dehd: Blue Skies review – shining melodies on indie-rockers’ biggest songs yet

This Chicago indie-rock trio are a kind of bands who're doubly satisfying to take heed to – the place every tune is catchy and evocative by itself, however taken collectively really feel casually masterly. Dehd appear to simply attain up and pluck songs off a tree, moderately than coaxing them out of the bottom.

Having damaged to a wider viewers with 2020’s glorious Flower of Devotion, Blue Skies will consolidate and develop that success. There’s little that’s revolutionary of their sound – unpasteurised storage rock within the vein of Ladies or the Drums, with a contact of twangy surf guitar and the identical hazy tackle 60s lady teams that late-80s dream-poppers and shoegazers additionally as soon as tried. However acquainted modes like these enable the melody writing to shine. A few of the prime strains are nagging of their immediacy – the joyous “do-do-do’s” on the 90-second Bop positively tickle you within the armpits – however others are cleverly minimal, just like the bulletins on the refrain to Empty in My Thoughts.

Because the band’s two lead vocalists, Jason Balla performs it straight whereas Emily Kempf inimitably hollers. “That is it / The most important but / I higher get it / I higher let it,” she sings on Clear, as if underneath a large open sky. The strains are more than likely about giddily giving your self as much as romantic infatuation, however may be a couple of band succumbing to ambition, and writing their largest songs but.

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