Recorded live in just five days, the new album from Dead Shed Jokers is as immediate as anything they have committed to tape. Following ‘Peyote Smile’ in 2011 and their eponymous album in 2015, the band (as ever), have dug deep into their collective consciousness to deliver their most personal record to date, distilling the emotional storm life can be into 10 new tracks.
They have devoted their time to plundering every deep, dark corner of their minds, bodies and souls to bring you a genuinely exciting, absorbing and at times moving experience. Whether that perceived movement be through the crunching riffs in the likes of ‘Dreams of North Korea’ chronicling a tale of crippling addiction or the raw nature of ‘All the Seasons’ and ‘764’ that creatively describe personal struggles with mental health and marital breakdown. Rock genre touchstones have been broken, bent and re-moulded to create new, yet familiar, music vehicles, purposefully designed to serve the precious lyrical cargo within.
DSJ have managed to create an incredibly inventive and diverse album, that harks not only to a time when rock music was born of imagination, but also to a bright future where hopefully uniqueness and creativity will again be celebrated by all. The emotional journey the listener undertakes will be a rewarding and thought provoking one and we just hope you will embrace it.
‘All the Seasons’ Track Listing:
1. Phantom Pains 2. Feel Some More 3. Dreams of North Korea 4. All the Seasons 5. Aesopica#15 6. Feel Today 7. 764 8. You’re a Thief 9. Spanner in the Works 10. Enough is as Good as a Feast
Dead Shed Jokers are: Vocals and Backing – Hywel Davies Guitars and Bass – Nicky Bryant and Kristian Evans Guitars, Bass, Fender Rhodes and Backing – Christopher Metters Drums, Percussion and Backing – Sean Mahoney