{"id":24984,"date":"2024-06-28T10:10:17","date_gmt":"2024-06-28T10:10:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/?p=24984"},"modified":"2024-06-28T10:10:21","modified_gmt":"2024-06-28T10:10:21","slug":"dealing-with-the-damage-head-back","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/?p=24984","title":{"rendered":"Dealing With The Damage – Head back"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

DEALING WITH DAMAGE RETURN WITH NEW SINGLE \u2018HEAD FULL OF FEEDBACK\u2019<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

UK TOUR WITH MIDWAY STILL STARTS JULY 9th<\/sup><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Following the release of their second album \u2018Use The Daylight\u2019 in early 2023 and a raft of gigs with the likes of Girls Against Boys, Soulside, Moving Targets, Messthetics, Diaz Brothers, Danger!Man, Ruts DC amongst many others, London post-punk band Dealing With Damage are set to return afresh in 2024 with new music. Having spent the last few months working up new songs, and a new bass player in Owen Cox, Dealing With Damage are ready to release the first finished track from these sessions in new single \u2018Head Full Of Feedback.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Recorded once again at Perry Vale Studios with the legend that is Pat Collier, then mixed at The Mix Dungeon by long-term collaborator Roop Coulson and mastered by Paul Yeadon, \u2018Head Full of Feedback\u2019 is dripping in melody, noise and propulsive drums and bass, clattering and swirling as it oozes out of your speakers directly into your head.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cIt\u2019s a somewhat elaborate thank you note to my daughter for chipping away over the past 5 years at my previous refusal to listen to Sonic Youth,\u201d explains vocalist and guitarist Ed Wenn. \u201cI had seen them a couple of times in the 80s and didn\u2019t like what I saw or heard, so consigned them to the \u2018Do Not Resuscitate\u2019 pile. A couple of years ago I investigated the music that I heard coming out of her room and discovered that these off-kilter, twisted, intelligent, sometimes downright beautiful pop nuggets were from none other than Sonic Youth.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cAs for the song itself, it was nice to write a story song about something light-hearted for a change. A lot of DWD lyrics walk along the serious side of the street, so it was great fun to write about art, music and memories of the 1980s when life was full possibilities and we had more than 3 weeks left to save the planet. We made full use of our new bass player, Owen\u2019s playing style to come up with a solid bass\/drums platform and built everything up from there. It\u2019s an evolution of the DWD sound and I think reflects a growing confidence in our ability to spread our wings after the positive feedback (pun intended!) that the experimentation of the second album, \u201cUse The Daylight\u201d received in the press and from audiences.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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