THE EDITED PRESS RELEASE: “Dehd kick off 2024 by releasing their fifth studio album, Poetry.
Following the whirlwind success of their fourth album Blue Skies and the hit single Bad Love, they first gathered at bassist Emily Kempf’s off-grid Earthship in Taos, N.M., where they chopped wood to stay warm and wrote songs during the daylight. Then they travelled to a cabin on the Puget Sound to set up their second writing camp — where, surrounded by chilly waters, time was marked only by the movement of the tides. “Eating, sleeping, breathing, living — our only purpose was to write,” Kempf recalled.
This was the first time the band travelled to distinctly notable locations to write and inspire themselves. Leaving Chicago proved to be a watershed moment. They finalized the songs that became Poetry back in Chicago in the warehouse they’ve called home for nearly a decade, where they rehearsed and wrote their entire catalogue. Friend and producer Ziyad Asrar, who co-produced all three Whitney albums, co-produced the album alongside the band’s singer-guitarist Jason Balla at Palisade Studio.
Poetry is for fans of garage rock like The Strokes, a happy and upbeat Velvet Underground, The Jesus and Mary Chain without the fuzz (but with all the hooks) and Weezer.”
