Deaf Havana have announced their new album ‘We’re Never Getting Out’ and shared the lead single ‘Lawn Tennis’ – listen below.
The Norfolk group’s seventh studio album sees frontman James Veck-Gilodi take the reins of the creative process himself, with The 1975 bassist Ross MacDonald playing throughout the record. Freddie Sheed (Lewis Capaldi, Take That) plays drums, while George Glew (Keir, Hanniou) co-wrote and co-produced the record with Veck-Gilodi.
The record will be released on October 3 via So Recordings and you can pre-order/pre-save it here.
‘Lawn Tennis’ is the first taste of the album and it sees Veck-Gilodi take aim at those around him that seek the normal life, singing in the chorus: “Will I ever understand why I’m losing all my friends? / To a perfect lawn, like there’s nothing more to life / And I just can’t pretend”.
Watch the track’s visualiser here:
Speaking about the album’s creative inspiration, Veck-Gilodi has said: “I have always wanted to change myself. But I’ve also never really owned up to and accepted my mistakes. I’ve just punished myself, told myself that I hated myself and ended up cosplaying as a completely different person instead.”
“All it took was for me to take the best parts from everything I have done and apply them without actually trying to totally change who I am in the process. Maybe it’s my age or mindset, but I accept who I am now and feel I know how to make myself a good person.”
In 2023, the frontman took the decision to scrap a body of work that he had been working on with his brother Matt Veck-Gilodi, feeling no emotional resonance with the provisional album, and set about on what would become ‘We’re Never Getting Out’ instead.
‘We’re Never Getting Out’ tracklist:
- ‘Life In Forward Motion’
- ‘Carousel’
- ‘Break’
- ‘Lawn Tennis’
- ‘Car Crash’
- ‘Hurts To Be Lonely’
- ‘Frida 1939’
- ‘Dog’
- ‘Cigarettes & Hotel Beds’
- ‘We’re Never Getting Out’
- ‘Tracing Lines’
- ‘I’ll Be Around’
Deaf Havana have also announced they will be playing a one-off, intimate headline show at London’s Omeara on May 22 – tickets for that show go on pre-sale at 10am on Tuesday (May 13) and you can find yours here.
The band’s last album was ‘The Present Is A Foreign Land’ in 2022, which saw the Veck-Gilodi brothers take the lead after the departure of bassist Lee Wilson and drummer Tom Ogden.
