DEAF HAVANA RELEASE NEW SINGLE ‘CAROUSEL’

Accepting yourself is one of the most daunting, challenging and altering things you can do in this life. To see every asset of your being, the good and the bad, the wins and the failures, the lessons and the mistakes, all in the same light, and use the clarity uncovered to push you forward into ever greater things, it takes a lot of work. But when it all slots into place, you wonder why you didn't take the steps sooner. 

James Veck-Gilodi has been confronting this for most of Deaf Havana's career. And it is only now, within the creation of their stunning seventh album, 'We're Never Getting Out' (out October 3rd via So Recordings/Civilians), that it has all started to make sense. The realisation that he has spent years swaying between extremes of existence, never genuinely finding contentment or happiness at either end. Forever feeling like every step of the band's journey to now – through Top 10 albums, sold-out tours, total breakdowns, and endless rebirths – has been to please someone else rather than himself. A constant battle of expectation, both inside his chest and on the turntable, that was always going to boil over at some point. 

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Of new single, ‘Carousel’, James says, “doing the same thing over and over again and expecting a different result is the definition of insanity, thats exactly how I’ve felt for the last ten years. Out of control, insane and just spinning around on the same loop, ending up exactly where I started. In the thralls of addiction and my previous relationship, I just felt like there was no way out, I was constantly making the same mistakes and choices that kept putting me right back, if not in a worse place than where I started. Carousel is essentially about feeling so out of control and stuck on a downward spiral that everything feels hopeless, all packaged in a banger of a rock song.”