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dEUS - How To Replace It
Tracklist:
1.How To Replace It
2.Must Have Been New
3.Man Of The House
4.1989
5.Faux Bamboo
6.Dream Is a Giver
7.Pirates
8.Simple Pleasures
9.Never Get You High
10.Cadillac
11.Love Breaks Down
12.Le Blues Polaire
dEUS have never really had a philosophy. Never wanted
one. Yet they’ve remained true to certain guiding
principles. “You don’t want to repeat yourself, but you have
your style,” says Tom Barman, frontman and genial leader
of the cult Belgian art-rockers. “You want to try new stuff
and just react to whatever feels fresh at the time.” So it is
with ‘How To Replace It’, their eighth studio album and first
in ten years; distinctive and inventive, melodic yet defiantly
off-kilter. Unique. And above all, unmistakably dEUS.
Even that title - mysterious, oblique - scans as being
fantastically unknowable, hinting at a deep sense of
wisdom. “I like the openness of it,” says Barman. Follow
the lyrical clues, and you might conclude ‘it’ concerns
romance and ageing; squint a little, and you might alight
on modernity being the malaise described. Either way,
fuelling intrigue is by design. “It’s a question, it’s an
answer... it’s up to the listener to decide.”
For the previous two records, jam sessions were long and
structured - five days a week, noon till 6pm - with songs
being moulded and developed over time. But for the ‘How
To Replace It’ sessions, Barman shook things up. “We had
short, explosive jams. Very concentrated,” he says. “And
when I heard something, I’d retreat with our engineers and
do the heavy lifting. That’s how the album came together.”
Twenty-eight years after their debut record, dEUS remain
indie stalwarts, pushing ever forward, endlessly curious
and creatively restless.
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