Dead Best - GOD: Out Of Order - new record, a new song is available!
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DEAD BEST Announces Third Album
"GOD: Out Of Order"
Out August 14th
Dead Best return on August 14th with God: Out of Order, their third and most fully realized album yet. Sharper, louder, and more melodic than ever, the record captures the absurdity, anxiety, and emotional whiplash of modern life through songs that are equally noisy and undeniably catchy. God: Out of Order finds Dead Best at their most fully realized — turning chaos into hooks, frustration into humor, and confusion into something worth shouting along to.
Dead Best - "Dial Tone Pulse" (Official Music Video)
Dead Best has a strong sense of what’s happening in the world — or at least how it feels to live through it. Their songs bounce between panic, laughter, denial, acceptance, grief, affection, awe, and disgust, always landing exactly where they should (we checked). Dead Best write and — gasp — actually record songs that channel all of that chaos into creatively catchy, equally noisy tunes. The songs stick with you, and the vocals notably do not sound like they were recorded inside a sealed coffin.
Is there a better way to navigate life’s endless mess than with close friends of more than forty years and a stack of good songs? Regardless of your answer, you’re wrong.
On record, Dead Best is largely the work of longtime music-makers Brian Sokel (Franklin, AM/FM, The Tazmanians) and Adam Goren (Atom and His Package, Armalite, Fracture, Pleasant Greene). Live, however, the songs are performed by what feels like two different bands playing the same set at the same time.
One side is made up of four musicians over 50, including former Franklin drummer — now practicing physician — Greg Giuliano on one set of drums, and Mike Parsell (AM/FM, Frail) plugging in pedals and playing guitar.
The other side is the conscripted younger generation, averaging about 21 years old. Ever McCarthy plays bass, Leo Sanchez plays guitar better than Brian, Mike, and Adam combined, Sam Goren handles the second set of drums, and Ruby Goren yelps and sings.
The older band members have the advantage of wisdom, experience, and decades of passive aggression — enough to ensure the younger crew carries most of the heavy gear. The younger musicians, meanwhile, have the advantage of being able to actually play the songs correctly.
Practices are loud. And when the amps finally go quiet, each sub-band retreats to separate corners to make jokes the other group probably wouldn’t appreciate anyway.
GOD: Out of Order is available for pre-order. "Dial Tone Pulse" is available now across all streaming platforms and Bandcamp now.