Deaf Havana have released a new single, ‘Carousel’, the latest preview of their seventh album, ‘We’re Never Getting Out’, which is due on 3rd October via So Recordings.
The record follows a period of reset for James Veck-Gilodi, who scrapped an earlier body of work in 2023 before starting afresh with producer and co-writer George Glew. Writing sessions began at Veck-Gilodi’s home before moving to Otterhead Studios in Rugby in November 2024. The album features Ross MacDonald of The 1975 on bass and Freddie Sheed on drums.
“I have always wanted to change myself,” James Veck-Gilodi explains. “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.”
Of the new single, Veck-Gilodi says, “doing the same thing over and over again and expecting a different result is the definition of insanity, thats exactly how I’ve felt for the last ten years. Out of control, insane and just spinning around on the same loop, ending up exactly where I started. In the thralls of addiction and my previous relationship, I just felt like there was no way out, I was constantly making the same mistakes and choices that kept putting me right back, if not in a worse place than where I started. Carousel is essentially about feeling so out of control and stuck on a downward spiral that everything feels hopeless, all packaged in a banger of a rock song.”
“Facing these things made me realise that I had the potential to change how my life was going,” he remarks. “I was probably scared of what was on the other side for so long that I would settle for whatever misery I was living in. But taking those steps made me realise I can do things that will benefit me in the long run and do things that are good for me rather than going in the same loop as I always have.”
The band will tour the UK in October.
The tracklisting for ‘We’re Never Getting Out’ reads:
‘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’
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