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urgencytobleedI just received an email about Deas Vail's upcoming self-titled album which is slated for release on the sixth of September. This news has made me ridiculously excited because, recently, I've been really into them - I went through a period of a week or two where I listened to hardly anything else - and I've been wondering when they were going to come out with something new. Below, view the lyric video for the first single, "Sixteen." Need to be further convinced to give this band a shot? Here's something I wrote at my personal journal about them at the height of my recent obsession:
This song doesn't really do justice to their sound; though the vocals are as flawless as ever, it's kind of a typical, poppy, three-minute single (much like "Excuses" from their last album, which has actually grown on me a ton since I first heard it). They have a lot of other songs that are far more impressive, I think. You must listen to "Birds" especially, if you only want to sample one song at first. It is ridiculously beautiful, one of my favorite songs in the world at the moment.
I've been quite obsessed with Deas Vail lately. I've loved them for awhile but I hadn't really listened to them very extensively since their last album came out a year or two ago. Lately, they've been almost exclusively the only thing I'm listening to though. They aren't explicitly promoted as a Christian band but I believe all of the members are Christians and the more I pay attention to the lyrics, the more religious they seem to me. Initially, I was a bit turned off by this as I don't believe in God myself but the music is just too damn good to allow any preconceived notions to drag it down. It's nothing particularly mindblowing, just energetic, powerful, unfathomably catchy pop-rock at its finest. Also, I have to say their lead singer, Wes Blaylock, is one of the finest vocalists performing right now in whatever musical niche they fit into. His range and control is incredible, seriously stunning. His falsetto fucking kills me dead, no joke; it blows me away every single time. (From here.)
This song doesn't really do justice to their sound; though the vocals are as flawless as ever, it's kind of a typical, poppy, three-minute single (much like "Excuses" from their last album, which has actually grown on me a ton since I first heard it). They have a lot of other songs that are far more impressive, I think. You must listen to "Birds" especially, if you only want to sample one song at first. It is ridiculously beautiful, one of my favorite songs in the world at the moment.
