Blog: Latest Disgrace

For all their love of grimy funk and skittering beats, I never thought I'd hear deadCAT sound this dreamy and chill, but the duo's latest single — appropriately titled "tanlines" — is just that. Led by wistful synths and stuttering percussion, the song seems destined to drown in a sea of haze and sun-baked nostalgia, but there's enough bite in Britt Teusink's diffuse vocals to keep it from becoming too laid-back and listless. There's a fluidity here that's impressive, and the underlying instrumentation seems to reveal new surprises with every listen. It's not their best effort by any [...]

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