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When Deaf Wish found themselves in a room together for the very first time, they agreed on a guiding philosophy: Lets not make anything thats going to last. If were together for just two shows, then thats what it is. Theyve deviated since.
Over the course of eight years, the Melbourne foursome bassist Nick Pratt, drummer Daniel Twomey and guitarists Sarah Hardiman and Jensen Tjhung with each member contributing vocals have instead amassed one of rocks most exhilarating bodies of work, a concise run of seven inches and white-knuckle albums whose legendary live translation has been most accurately described as unhinged. All this despite their being scattered across multiple continents, with no way of getting to know one another outside of intermittent touring. We didnt really know what this band was, says Tjhung. We had something, but it wasnt clear we had to figure out what that was. When Deaf Wish found themselves in a room together for the very first time, they agreed on a guiding philosophy: Lets not make anything thats going to last. If were together for just two shows, then thats what it is. Theyve deviated since.
Over the course of eight years, the Melbourne foursome bassist Nick Pratt, drummer Daniel Twomey and guitarists Sarah Hardiman and Jensen Tjhung with each member contributing vocals have instead amassed one of rocks most exhilarating bodies of work, a concise run of seven inches and white-knuckle albums whose legendary live translation has been most accurately described as unhinged. All this despite their being scattered across multiple continents, with no way of getting to know one another outside of intermittent touring. We didnt really know what this band was, says Tjhung. We had something, but it wasnt clear we had to figure out what that was.
This year marks the arrival of Pain, the first music theyve written since coming together again semi-permanently in Melbourne and their appropriately titled first full length for Sub Pop. It is a miraculously dissonant, wonderfully immediate display of Deaf Wish at their mightiest, alive with the same wild chemistry and sense of possibility that made their first recordings so vital.
With more time together than theyve ever had before, theyve found themselves confronted with ideal (yet foreign) conditions. Twominute freak-outs like Eyes Closed share airspace with the meditate squall of On and the guitar-born majesty of Calypso. Everything was captured in three takes or less, in a bleak, nondescript studio on the lifeless outskirts of Melbourne. Pain was mastered by Mikey Young (Eddy Current Suppression Ring, Total Control).
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