Relentless, punchy alt-rock outsiders Dead Naked Hippies return with exuberant new single ‘Eyes Wide’ on 20th September. A coming of age, outsider anthem, ‘Eyes Wide’ opens with stark guitar stabs before frontwoman Lucy Jowett takes centre stage with a bold, confident & striking vocal. The track builds into a huge chorus, culminating in the hook “With eyes wide, I am not blind.” It’s a huge statement of intent from the Leeds based band, showing they are ready to take arms.
‘Eyes Wide’ was produced & mixed by Grammy & BRIT Award nominated producer Tom Dalgety (Pixies, Royal Blood, Rammstein), & mastered by Grammy nominated engineer Robin Schmidt (Placebo, The Black Keys, Pale Waves). It is the follow up to visceral single ‘Young Male Rage’ which gained support from BBC 6Music & The Independent.
Frontwoman Lucy explains;
"Eyes Wide is for the outsiders, the pieces that don’t quite fit the puzzle, those growing up & growing wiser but not by societal norms or expectation, instead blossoming in their own beautiful way. For those making their own shapes, decisions, perspectives, words and waves in their own time & seeing the world through their own eyes. 26 years in and I’m not the person the child or the teenage me thought I would be, or should be by expectation. No shame. Eyes Wide is a celebration of it.
I spend a lot of time trying to make sense of our modern world, so these themes always end up creeping into Dead Naked Hippies songs. So much time is spent communicating & consuming in the digital world now, it can be easy to look at what we see of people on the internet and make assumptions about their life, happiness and compare our own when what we’re looking at doesn’t even touch the sides. I’m a culprit of doing this and knowing what it’s like to be on the receiving end I would never want anyone under the impression that I or our band has it all figured out cos that is definitely not the case. Eyes Wide is an ode to imperfection in this sense, and I’m so passionate about keeping things real and opening up about mental health. The relationship we’ve built with our audience is really important for that."
It was their first time working with renowned producer Tom Dalgety & Lucy continues;
“We approached the production similarly to the sentiment of the track, capturing each element at its purest & punchiest. We make a lot of noise for 3 people as a live band, which is where we feel most at home so it was very important for us to capture this on the record, & (producer) Tom was integral to that, leaving us with a track we’re extremely proud to share."
The Leeds band has had a whirlwind 18 months; with extensive touring across the UK, sharing stages with the likes of Dream Wife, IDLES, Queen Zee & DZ Deathrays as well as taking to stages at Leeds Festival, 2Q Festival, Twisterella Festival, Humber Street Sesh & Stockton Calling. They have received support from Steve Lamacq & Tom Robinson on BBC 6Music, BBC Introducing, KCRW & Amazing Radio, as well as coverage from DIY, Clash, The Independent, Metro & DORK & features on E4 & BT Sport. They were awarded the first ever ‘Do it Differently’ fund by leading UK music charity Help Musicians UK in late 2018 & have previously worked alongside Leeds indie label Dance To The Radio (Forward Russia) & 7" singles club Come Play With Me. The band are extremely open about what drives them & aren’t afraid to discuss confrontational topics, speaking about self-love, mental health & gender in an open and unapologetic way, both in their music & in conversation.
With frenetic & hard hitting live shows, they are earning a growing reputation as one of the most exciting live acts in the UK music scene right now. Characterised by force-of-nature frontwoman Lucy Jowett, Joe Clarke’s huge guitar sound & Jacob Marston’s booming drums, the trio subtly lull you in before taking your head off with their wall of sound. Following a festival season which has seen them headline BBC Introducing stages & play packed out shows to rapturous Live at Leeds & Truck Festival crowds, they will appear at Beautiful Days Festival, Bingley Weekender & more.
‘Eyes Wide’ is released digitally today, hear it here.
On their upcoming tour, the band will be collecting food for their local food bank 'Lazard'. Full list of live dates below. Scroll down for live dates.
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