Dehd Share New Single & Video, "Letter"

Dehd are back today with a new single. Emily Kempf, Jason Balla, and Eric McGrady - release a new single and video, “Letter.” The track follows on the heels of Water, their “effortless and uncomplicated” (Pitchfork) debut album released earlier this year. The video was conceptualized by Kempf and was directed by Ryan Hart, and features numerous tattoo artists from the Chicago-land area. Kempf herself a notable tattoo artist in her own right (see Magic Tatty), the track artwork features the tattoos she designed and received in the video itself. Kempf describes the track below.

"’Letter’ is a visual and sonic representation of the physical embodiment of subtle lingering grief and the arc of healing that follows once love has lost and relationship dynamics have shifted. The pain of one party moving on before the other, leaving a feeling of replacement. The empowerment and strength found from non-sexual friendship, from creative pursuits, and from constant, unapologetic self care, self soothing, and acts of self love. A moving on and moving forward that only happens once one has returned truly to oneself. ‘Letter’ is the beginning of the end of an era.”

Watch & Share "Letter": https://youtu.be/f-ozktCpop0

Additional Videos

• Watch the "Happy Again" video here: https://youtu.be/zW0kakobIsQ
• Watch the Video for "On My Side": https://youtu.be/FEGUxq2uMFA
• Watch the Video for "Lucky" Here: https://youtu.be/xOqm5kT7o1k

Dehd is Jason Balla, Emily Kempf, and Eric McGrady. Balla and Kempf are both veterans of Chicago’s increasingly fruitful DIY scene (Balla with NE-HI and Earring, Kempf with Vail and formerly with Lala Lala). When they joined forces with first-time drummer Eric McGrady, they discovered they shared a strange and inexplicable chemistry. The music they make — hazy and reverb-drenched, a scuzzy and hyped-up take on surf rock that could only come from the Third Coast — came so intuitively, it made all three feel like they were stewards of something bigger than themselves, even while that very thing is unmistakably drawn from their own personalities.

Music Video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f-ozktCpop0&feature=youtu.be

Dehd on Tour

• Tue. Oct. 8 - Berlin, DE @ Musik und Frieden &
• Wed. Oct. 9 - Hamburg, DE @ Molotow Musikclub &
• Fri. Oct. 11 - Rotterdam, NL @ Rotown &
• Sat. Oct. 12 - Amsterdam, NL @ Paradiso
• Mon. Oct. 14 - Cologne, DE @ MTC &
• Tue. Oct. 15 - Paris, FR @ La Boule Noire &
• Wed. Oct. 16 - London, UK @ Dome Tufnell Park & - SOLD OUT
• Thu. Oct. 17 - Manchester, UK @ Eagle Inn
• Fri. Oct. 18 - Leeds, UK @ Brudenell Social Club &
• Sat. Oct. 19 - Oxford, UK @ Ritual Union &
• Sun. Oct. 20 - Cardiff, UK @ SWN Festival
• Tue, Oct. 22 - London, UK @ Rough Trade East
• Wed. Oct. 23 - Brighton, UK @ The Prince Albert

&= w/ Twin Peaks

• “While Water comes out of the ashes of romance, it's so optimistic and hopeful that it feels wrong to even call it a breakup album. Dehd's melodies have the same breezy and pop-minded feel of '60s girl groups, but performed by a raucous DIY punk band.” - Vice
• “Quick and concise, its 13 tracks drip with timeless appeal; like the best ‘60s pop, Dehd’s bite-sized love songs are warm and lively, yet thinly veiled with sadness.” - The Talkhouse
• "Dreamy, ramshackle indie rock that flashes me back a decade to the rise of Beach Fossils and Real Estate" - Stereogum
• “These songs feel ironically weightless for an album dealing with tense moments of frustration and heartbreak, and mirrors the ever-shifting essence of water itself.” - FLOOD
• “Water has the charm of a scuzzy ’80s indie-pop record, a breezy ’60s surf rock venture and a wonderfully skeletal bedroom rock album, and it’s in this misty intersection that Dehd earn their stripes.” - Paste