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Deafheaven Announce New Album “Infinite Granite” due August 20th via Sargent House + Share New Single “Great Mass of Color”

June 10, 2021
Photo credit: George Clarke

DEAFHEAVEN ANNOUNCES NEW ALBUM INFINITE GRANITE 

THE JUSTIN MELDAL-JOHNSEN PRODUCED ALBUM IS SET FOR AN AUGUST 20TH RELEASE ON SARGENT HOUSE

For the past ten years, the seminal San Francisco band Deafheaven has been driven by evolution and innovation within themselves and their respective genres. With their forthcoming album Infinite Granite, available August 20th via Sargent House, they’ve taken another giant leap forward. With production from Justin Meldal-Johnsen, known for his stellar work with M83, Wolf Alice, Paramore, Metric, among others, Deafheaven embarks on a new chapter of defiant beauty.

The album’s first single, “Great Mass of Color,” pairs sparse, hushed verses with roaring technicolor choruses – a song where their mastery over the relationship between tension and release is on full display.  

Great Mass of Color is a 6-minute immersive exploration, enriched with this hypnotic energy cascading from the tones, the propelling fierce riffs, mighty drum beat, and raw lyrics. This new track captures this impressive energy from the outfit, where each musician creatively enforces this momentum from the bewitching power whilst united use their space to form this essential soundscape. The lyrics fearlessly influence this alluring mystique, intimacy and this boundary-free infliction allow for emotion to exude from every note. The new composition brings this level of maturity and progression to an outfit capable of anything. Deafheaven has created this epic course destined to impress with its compelling nature and intensive high octane peaks.

Across the album, vocalist George Clarke showcases a startling vocal range; falsettos, whispers, multi-part harmonies, and other adventurous vocal treatments, with his trademark black metal-inspired howls mostly absent. Guitarists Kerry McCoy and Shiv Mehra expand their sonic palette to include synth textures using them to enrich their astral guitar work rather than outright replace it.  Drummer Daniel Tracy has always been a force to reckon with behind the kit, but where he used to floor audiences with his speed and stamina, he’s now free to broaden his approach and lay down authoritative drum patterns that together with bassist Christopher Johnson’s punchy bass lines anchor the band’s lofty arrangements. Ultimately, Infinite Granite is Deafheaven’s most goosebump-inducing album to date. 

Jack Shirley, who recorded all the previous Deafheaven albums, remained on board to engineer part of Infinite Granite at his Atomic Garden East studio in Oakland, CA with additional engineering and mixing coming from nine-time Grammy Award winner Darrell Thorp (Foo Fighters, Radiohead, Beck)

INFINITE GRANITE TRACKLISTING

Shellstar

In Blur

Great Mass of Color

Neptune Raining Diamonds

Lament for Wasps

Villain

The Gnashing

Other Language

Mombasa 

https://deafheaven.com/

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