London-based slowcore band Deathcrash announces its new album Less, due out in March via untitled (recs). Less was recorded in the UK's most remote studio in the Outer Hebrides and follows 2022's critically acclaimed album Return - a statement of reduction that is as powerful and strong as it is delicate and introspective.
"Our goal was to be super minimal," says Deathcrash vocalist Tiernan Banks. "Just simple and beautiful guitar parts and being really naked. To be_.less." Shortly after "Return," the band initially had no plans to make an album. "The last thing we felt like doing was another album," says bassist Patrick Fitzgerald. "We thought, 'Let's do this little EP that's aesthetically very different and more stripped down.'" Less was always intended to be a pared-down statement, but it quickly became clear that the songs the band was writing were meaningful, personal and, despite the intention to scale things back, bigger.
"As time went on, we started to give it more emotional weight, and it became more important to us," Banks says. The result is an album as powerful and strong as it is delicate and introspective, with arrangements that feel refined yet detailed, and a deep emotional resonance at the record's core. Banks' voice shifts from hushed whispers to guttural screams, tapping into the kind of fragile beauty that artists like Elliott Smith have done so well in tracks like "Duffy's," before unleashing a doom-metal growl in thunderous unison with the band in "Empty Heavy."
The album has already received initial press support from a number of UK publications, including a 4-page print feature in Loud & Quiet, a feature in Line of Best Fit, and early indications of support from Stereogum and a number of other US publications.
London slowcore band Deathcrash announces their new album Less, due out in March via untitled (recs). Less was recorded in the UK's most remote studio in the Outer Hebrides and follows 2022's critically acclaimed album Return - a statement of reduction that is as powerful and strong as it is delicate and introspective. "Our goal was to be super minimal," says Deathcrash vocalist Tiernan Banks. "Just simple and beautiful guitar parts and being really naked.
To be_.less." Shortly after "Return," the band initially had no plans to make an album. "The last thing we felt like doing was another album," says bassist Patrick Fitzgerald. "We thought, 'Let's do this little EP that's aesthetically very different and more stripped down.'" Less was always intended to be a pared-down statement, but it quickly became clear that the songs the band was writing were meaningful, personal and, despite the intention to scale things back, bigger. "As time went on, we started to give it more emotional weight, and it became more important to us," Banks says. The result is an album as powerful and strong as it is delicate and introspective, with arrangements that feel refined yet detailed, and a deep emotional resonance at the record's core.
Banks' voice shifts from hushed whispers to guttural screams, tapping into the kind of fragile beauty that artists like Elliott Smith have done so well in tracks like "Duffy's," before unleashing a doom-metal growl in thunderous unison with the band in "Empty Heavy."
The album has already received initial press support from a number of UK publications, including a 4-page print feature in Loud & Quiet, a feature in Line of Best Fit, and early indications of support from Stereogum and a number of other US publications.
"Our goal was to be super minimal," says Deathcrash vocalist Tiernan Banks. "Just simple and beautiful guitar parts and being really naked. To be_.less." Shortly after "Return," the band initially had no plans to make an album. "The last thing we felt like doing was another album," says bassist Patrick Fitzgerald. "We thought, 'Let's do this little EP that's aesthetically very different and more stripped down.'" Less was always intended to be a pared-down statement, but it quickly became clear that the songs the band was writing were meaningful, personal and, despite the intention to scale things back, bigger.
"As time went on, we started to give it more emotional weight, and it became more important to us," Banks says. The result is an album as powerful and strong as it is delicate and introspective, with arrangements that feel refined yet detailed, and a deep emotional resonance at the record's core. Banks' voice shifts from hushed whispers to guttural screams, tapping into the kind of fragile beauty that artists like Elliott Smith have done so well in tracks like "Duffy's," before unleashing a doom-metal growl in thunderous unison with the band in "Empty Heavy."
The album has already received initial press support from a number of UK publications, including a 4-page print feature in Loud & Quiet, a feature in Line of Best Fit, and early indications of support from Stereogum and a number of other US publications.
London slowcore band Deathcrash announces their new album Less, due out in March via untitled (recs). Less was recorded in the UK's most remote studio in the Outer Hebrides and follows 2022's critically acclaimed album Return - a statement of reduction that is as powerful and strong as it is delicate and introspective. "Our goal was to be super minimal," says Deathcrash vocalist Tiernan Banks. "Just simple and beautiful guitar parts and being really naked.
To be_.less." Shortly after "Return," the band initially had no plans to make an album. "The last thing we felt like doing was another album," says bassist Patrick Fitzgerald. "We thought, 'Let's do this little EP that's aesthetically very different and more stripped down.'" Less was always intended to be a pared-down statement, but it quickly became clear that the songs the band was writing were meaningful, personal and, despite the intention to scale things back, bigger. "As time went on, we started to give it more emotional weight, and it became more important to us," Banks says. The result is an album as powerful and strong as it is delicate and introspective, with arrangements that feel refined yet detailed, and a deep emotional resonance at the record's core.
Banks' voice shifts from hushed whispers to guttural screams, tapping into the kind of fragile beauty that artists like Elliott Smith have done so well in tracks like "Duffy's," before unleashing a doom-metal growl in thunderous unison with the band in "Empty Heavy."
The album has already received initial press support from a number of UK publications, including a 4-page print feature in Loud & Quiet, a feature in Line of Best Fit, and early indications of support from Stereogum and a number of other US publications.
