Death In Vegas share new single ‘Your Love’
taken from forthcoming album ‘Death Mask’
released June 6th on vinyl, download & stream, via Drone
Stream / share ‘Your Love’ here
Death In Vegas - photo credit Elaine Kin
Events:
16/05/25 - Sat 17/05/25 - Deleste Festival, Valencia (live show)
12/06/25 - Rough Trade Denmark St, London (Q&A)
15/06/25 - Beyond the Pale Festival, Co. Wicklow (live show)
21/06/25 - EartH Theatre, London (live show)
25/06/25 - Le Trabendo, Paris (live show)
26/06/25 - Le Bikini, Toulouse (live show)
27/06/25 - TBA, Nîmes (live show)
On June 6th the highly-established Death In Vegas return with new album ‘Death Mask’, where disintegration, overload and total sonic immersion tell a personal tale. With dirty circuitry and rough-hewn textures at the fore, this is gritty, unpolished techno; an audio outlier that’s full of personality, and a bold artistic statement.
Raw in both senses, as well as unbridled electrical grit, ‘Death Mask’ is raw emotionally too. From Death In Vegas’ mainstay Richard Fearless’ own birth in Chingola, Zambia, to his father’s funeral, the album reflects on Fearless’ own life, loved ones, and grief. Seeped in heavy emotions and torrents of volts, the results are some of the most strikingly visceral and human electronic sounds you’ll hear.
Multiple thematic channels are fed through Death in Vegas’ machines, with Fearless literally processing his feelings, working them through as a form of electronic primal therapy. More than just tattered gnarliness though, an unconventional beauty radiates through the noise. Like light refracting through a filthy, cracked stained-glass-window, icy IDM melancholy juxtaposes perfectly, with caustic rave power.
A moment of intimacy and healing resolution on the album is its pivotal arc – ‘Your Love’ – where Fearless finds solace in the care from his partner, whose whispered vocals glide over nerve-tingling synths, which radiate an icy rapture, like stepping out of a rave at 6am, cold, frazzled, but beatific, still glowing in ecstasy.
Biog:
Richard Fearless began as resident DJ at the Job Club in London’s Soho during the 90s, where he’d play alongside Claude Young, Derrick May, Dave Angel and Andrew Weatherall. After a few years he was picked as a resident for the legendary Heavenly Social, alongside the Chemical Brothers. It was during this time that he started Death in Vegas.
Across the six Death In Vegas albums, guest vocalists have included Dot Allison, Bobby Gillespie, Iggy Pop, Jim Reid from The Jesus and Mary Chain and Mazzy Star’s Hope Sandoval.
‘The Contino Sessions’ was nominated for the Mercury Music Prize, and its single ‘Aisha’ was a top 10 hit in the UK. The title track from the album ‘Scorpio Rising’ reached 14 in the UK charts.
Death In Vegas performed their much-loved single ‘Dirge’ on Jools Holland in 2000, then a quarter century later, in testament to its enduring appeal, the track was sampled by Celeste on her recent single ‘Everyday’.
Their music has featured in many TV programmes and films, most notably Sofia Coppola's ‘Lost in Translation’, ‘Mission: Impossible – Fallout’, and ‘The Animatrix’.
Gigs played include Atonal Berlin, Movement in Detroit, Glastonbury, Reading and Leeds, Coachella, Brixton Academy, Fabric, Fuji Rock, Primavera Sound and Manchester Academy.
‘Death Mask’ track list:
1. Chingola
2. Lovers
3. While My Machines Gently Weep
4. Hazel
5. Roseville
6. Róisín Dub(H)
7. Robin's Ghost
8. Your Love
9. Death Mask
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