s World-weary and road-wise, The Deadmen graces us with painterly lyrics and profoundly captivating melody. For what is ostensibly the band’s first proper release, The Deadmen is a bracingly complete work, polished and deeply arresting. It’s a record of frustration and paranoia. Of hope and loss. Of addiction, despair and infidelity. And in the end it’s about love.
Before The Deadmen, Justin Jones and Josh Read had built independent careers and forged a friendship as singer-songwriters in DC. Jones released two records through Thirty Tigers, and toured North America extensively. Read founded the now-defunct Gypsy Eyes label, releasing records from Vandaveer, Brandon Butler (ex-Canyon and Boy’s Life), and his own band, Revival. Justin Hoben, a singer/songwriter in his own right, took the name John Bustine and released one record through Gypsy Eyes.
Together, their deft songwriting and shared vocals complement each other to stunning effect; painting an American landscape of clattering thunder, gentle rains and shards of light.
Glide is premiering the propulsive Deadmen rocker “Windchimes” which contains a machine gun blast of rock with the ragged reflection reminiscent of The Clash and The Replacements. Rhythmic simplicity and fierce brevity make for the most poignant of rock statements and The Deadmen have executed precisely.
‘”Windchimes is a song about Futility and Karma. The Devil is Real. Imagined devils are real to the surrealist, just as real devils are tales to the realist,” says Jones about the track. “The tune was written from a riff stolen from some unsuspecting windchimes that sang from a house porch I passed while walking a dog. Said melody appears after the first chorus…directly before the second verse.”
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