Name: Blue Skies
Brand: Dehd

Bonus disc

Bonus disc: No

Catalogue number

FP17983

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Colour

pink

Colour details

Pink Lipstick Vinyl

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Discogs ID

Discs

Download code

Download code: No

Rough Trade Exclusive

Rough Trade Exclusive: No

Extended format

Extended format: Yes

Format detail

Indie Exclusive

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Format Music US

Limited edition

Release date

2022-05-27

Signed copies

Signed copies: No

Supplier US

Orchard

Tax rate US

Sales:8.875

UPC / Barcode

767981179834

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1 / Extended format: Yes / LP / Rough Trade Exclusive: No / Signed copies: No / pink

FP17982

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Extended format: No

767981179827

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1 / CD / Extended format: No / Rough Trade Exclusive: No / Signed copies: No

FP17981

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black

767981179810

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1 / Extended format: No / LP / Rough Trade Exclusive: No / Signed copies: No / black

Artist

Dehd

Genre US

Rock-Pop

Label US

Fat Possum

Exclusives

Blue Skies is Dehd's first album for Fat Possum, and their follow up to Flower of Devotion. Upon arrival during the fraught summer of 2020, Flower of Devotion felt like Dehd’s necessary prescription for us all. That was, of course, a moment of unprecedented anxiety and uncertainty, when just contemplating the future could seem overly optimistic. But Dehd captured and shared the precarious balance between real life and real hope, a feat mirrored by instant pop melodies and infectious punk energy. The Chicago trio had the audacity to look ahead when many of us didn’t, to imagine improvement through mere existence. It was an album we needed. We need its follow-up, the triumphant Blue Skies, even more.

Dehd’s fourth album (and first for Fat Possum) is also the band’s second consecutive breakthrough, loaded with the most compelling, compulsive, and expansive songs of their career. Blue Skies offers another jolt of timely hope, only with twice the power. These 13 hits feel like flashlights in the dark, acknowledging how difficult everything from love and sex to living and dying can be while supplying the inspiration of their own experiences.

The writing is sharper and smarter on Blue Skies. The harmonies and rhythms are more sophisticated and considered. The moods are deeper, the swings between them more inspiring. But this is still Dehd, just more wild and wonderful than ever before. “This is all we get,” Emily shouts with relish on the record’s last lines, during a song about the ways geologic deep time should free us all to live more. “Best to take the risk.” Heard, loud and clear.

Blue Skies

Music US